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

Sutter's Mill

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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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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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? Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4. If no, please explain why not.

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

"Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

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Let's Write Some x86-64

Nick Desaulniers

“It’s written in ones and zeroes - binary code. 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. For example in the code: 1. . “Is this another analogy?”

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