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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) ( Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew). The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 ( Dirk Strauss).

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PostgreSQL Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

Scalegrid

of PostgreSQL cloud deployments were hosted through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), growing 11% from April where they only averaged 17.5% Back in 2013, PostgreSQL surveyed their users to see which external programming languages was most often used with PostgreSQL, and found that Python only represented 10.5% of PostgreSQL hosting.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. For example: Are we loading the whole of jQuery for some basic DOM operations?

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

GA 5 February 2013 5.6.10 GA 7 October 2013 5.6.13-61.0 Some features, like time-delayed replication that were present in MySQL since 2013, only make an appearance in MariaDB Server in 2017! Analytics MariaDB ColumnStore is the MariaDB solution to analytics and using a column-based store. GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Complete Web Monitoring. Speed Up Your Site. Still good. There's a time bomb on the web: user patience.

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Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

When I worked in-house at Shopify in 2013, themes were fairly simple in terms of code complexity. That could be an entirely separate article, but here’s the overview: Shopify has a lot of overhead : feature detection, tracking, and payment buttons (Apple Pay, Google Pay, ShopPay). Large preview ).