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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. No proprietary operating system or database required.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Stay tuned!

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. The Face demonstrates how a system for design is the structure on which you start building a design. The Face was a living laboratory where I could experiment and have it published.

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