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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. 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). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source?

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.

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Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure project, that allows you to automatically shard across multiple Redis nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions.

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