Improving healthcare in Zambia with CouchDB
A new healthcare project in Zambia is trying to integrate supervisors, clinics, and community healthcare workers (CHW) into a system that can improve patient service and provide more data about the...
View ArticleBrian Aker explains Memcached
Memcached is one of the technologies that holds the modern Internet together, but do you know what it actually does? Brian Aker has certainly earned the title of Memcached guru, and below he offers a...
View ArticleWrap-up of 2011 MySQL Conference
Two themes emerged at this week’s MySQL conference: Mix your relational database with less formal solutions and move to the cloud. Naturally, the event included many other talks of a more immediate...
View ArticlePercona's mini-conferences target the evolution of MySQL
I had a talk yesterday about the progress of MySQL with Baron Schwartz, lead author of O’Reilly’s book High Performance MySQL. He’s Chief Performance Architect at Percona, the dominant company for...
View ArticleDeveloper Week in Review: Lion drops pre-installed MySQL
A busy week at Casa Turner, as the infamous Home Renovations of Doom wrap up, I finish the final chapters of “Developing Enterprise iOS Applications” (buy a copy for all your friends, it’s a real page...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 December 2011
How Twitter Stores 250M Tweets a Day Using MySQL (High Scalability) — notes from a talk at the MySQL conference on how Twitter built a high-volume MySQL store. How The Atlantic Got Profitable With...
View ArticleMySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live
The big annual MySQL conference, started by MySQL AB in 2003 and run by my company O’Reilly for several years, lives on under the able management of Percona. This fast-growing company started out doing...
View ArticleFour short links: 8 June 2012
HAproxy — high availability proxy, cf Varnish. Opera Reviews SPDY — thoughts on the high-performance HTTP++ from a team with experience implementing their own protocols. Section 2 makes a good intro...
View ArticleThe key web technologies that work together for dynamic web sites
The technologies that led to an explosion of interactive websites — PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS — are still as popular today, and a non-programmer can master them quickly. In this interview, Robin...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 July 2012
Drones Over Somalia are Hazard to Air Traffic (Washington Post) — In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refugee...
View ArticleFour short links: 23 April 2013
Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 September 2013
The Amen Break (YouTube) — fascinating 20m history of the amen break, a handful of bars of drum solo from a forgotten 1969 song which became the origin of a huge amount of popular music from rap to...
View ArticleIns and Outs of Running MySQL on AWS
In the following interview, PalominoDB owner and CEO Laine Campbell discusses advantages and disadvantages of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a platform for running MySQL. The solution provides a...
View ArticleThe Power of a Private HTTP Archive Instance: Finding a Representative...
Be honest, have you ever wanted to play Steve Souders for a day and pull some revealing stats or trends about some web sites of your choice? Or maybe dig around the HTTP archive? You can do that and...
View ArticleHigh Availability with MySQL and Moving to MongoDB
Henrik Ingo (@h_ingo) is a MySQL architect, author, and OSCON 2013 Speaker. In this interview we talk about high availability in MySQL and why he switched to MongoDB. NOTE: If you are interested in...
View ArticleScaling People, Process, and Technology with Python
NOTE: If you are interested in attending OSCON to check out Dave’s talk or the many other cool sessions, click over to the OSCON website where you can use the discount code OS13PROG to get 20% off your...
View Article5 ways developers win with PaaS
As a software developer, you are no doubt familiar with the process of abstracting away unnecessary detail in code — imagine if that same principle were applied to application hosting. Say hello to...
View ArticleDynamic columns in MariaDB
Buy Learning MySQL and MariaDB. MariaDB and similar SQL database systems allow for a variety of data types that may be used for storing data in columns within tables. When creating or altering a...
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