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Percona Is Introducing Telemetry Mechanisms Into MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

Percona

This insight allowed us to put two critical programs in place to help companies either make the transition to 8.0 Both programs have been met with great responses from new and existing customers who found themselves stuck! which is scheduled for EOL by the end of October 2023. Here is an excerpt from Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.34

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Strategy

The Agile Manager

It’s also awkward, an exercise of the blindfolded people describing the pachyderm. Some of this is likely a function of professional programming: if, for the totality of your career, the boss has supplied you with the reason why you do the things that you do, it isn’t natural to start a new initiative by asking “why”. And that’s ok.

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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

C++ 80
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A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

The Morning Paper

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

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Let's Write Some x86-64

Nick Desaulniers

At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with strings of ones and zeroes. When you program in machine language, you are controlling the computer at its brainstem, the root of its existence. Our first goal is to write an x86-64 program that does nothing, but that we can build. It’s the tongue of Eden.

C++ 98
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End of term

The Morning Paper

In case you’re wondering, that paper was " Why functional programming matters " (revisited again on the blog 2 years later). Taking a scroll through the HotOS’19 program, you’ll find plenty more really interesting papers that it pains me I didn’t have the time to cover (yet?). I’m not dead yet!

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iOS Engine Choice In Depth

Alex Russell

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Differences in uptake rates matter because it's only by updating a program on the user's devices that fixes can begin to protect users. If no, please explain why not.