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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

So as a company dedicated to making our customers better at building, maintaining, and running complex software systems, it's basically impossible for us to recommend building a new system using MSMQ. As we plan into the future, we will be bringing in even more capabilities to the platform. So what do I need to do? for more details.

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. You need an “abtest” database service. There are three ways to populate the database. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

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Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL

Percona

The simplest way to run it for testing is to use the docker container: docker run --name pg-tde -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d perconalab/postgres-tde-ext This command starts a container with the extension loaded and already enabled for the Postgres database.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Provides safe access to USB devices from the web, enabling new classes of applications in the browser from education to software development and debugging. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware.

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