Sat.Sep 08, 2018 - Fri.Sep 14, 2018

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The Anna Key-Value Store Now Has 355x the Performance of DynamoDB for the Dollar

High Scalability

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware.

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The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch

Alex Russell

TL;DR : we cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now “normal” and expect the web to flourish. At the same time, most developers experience no constraint on their use of JS…until it’s too late. “JS neutral” (or negative) tools are here, but we’re stuck in a rhetorical rut. We need to reset our conversation about “developer experience” to factor in the asymmetric cost of JS.

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Inheritance And Composition In A PHP Application

The Polyglot Developer

As developers, we have encountered scenarios where some of the code we write can be reused by other code pieces. This has brought the concepts of code reuse in paradigms like object oriented programming. In this article, the author seeks to explain when to reuse code as well as how to achieve code reuse. The post Inheritance And Composition In A PHP Application appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Cascade and Other Essential Unessentials

Tim Kadlec

There was a poll posted the other day by Max on Twitter and it has lead to some fairly heated follow-up discussion (Developers being angry on Twitter? Shocking, I know.). Max posted the following question: Given these classes: red { color: red; }.blue { color: blue; }. Which color would these divs be? The correct answer is that they’re both blue.

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Public Cloud Postcentralization is the Thin Edge of the Wedge into the Enterprise

High Scalability

Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. This issue—the deep nature of centralization—came up as a comment on my article What Do You Believe Now That You Didn't Five Years Ago?

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Analyzing Amazon Aurora Slow Logs with pt-query-digest

Percona

In this blog post we shall discuss how you can analyze slow query logs from Amazon Aurora for MySQL , (referred to as Amazon Aurora in the remaining blog). The tools and techniques explained here apply to the other MySQL compatible services available under Amazon Aurora. However, we’ll focus specially on analyzing slow logs from Amazon Aurora version 2 (MySQL 5.7 compatible) using pt-query-digest.

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Multi-master with MariaDB 10 - a tutorial

Percona Community

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to use multi-master to aggregate databases with the same name, but different data from different masters, on the same slave. Example: master1 => a French subsidiary master2 => a British subsidiary Both have the same database PRODUCTION but the data are totally different. This screenshot is made from my own monitoring tool: PmaControl.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. You are viewing 581 cards with a total of 1,237,157 stars, market cap of $6.86T and funding of $20.1B. ( changelog ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.