O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

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Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

Our newest release continues our theme of making your RUM data even more actionable. In addition to advanced settings, navigation types, and page attributes , we've just released more diagnostic detail for the latest flavor in Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This post covers: Element attribution for INP A breakdown of where time is spent within INP, leveraging subparts How to use this information to find and fix INP issues A look ahead at RUM diagnostics at SpeedCurve How quick

Google 78

Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 78

Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises.

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Percona Community

APRIL 30, 2024

ProxySQL is an SQL aware proxy, which gives DBA’s fine grained control over clients’ access to the MySQL cluster. A key part of our DBA team’s process in testing and preparing for major MySQL version upgrades is comparing query plans using ProxySQL query mirroring. This feature allows us to mirror queries to another cluster / host, by configuring query rules.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2024

Interest rates have been climbing for two years now. The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday with the headline the days of ultra low interest rates are over. Tech will have to adjust. It’s going to be painful. When capital is expensive, we measure investments against the hurdle rate: the rate of return an investment must satisfy to exceed to be a demonstrably good use of capital.

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