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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. So many more quotes.

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What Should You Know About Graph Database’s Scalability?

DZone

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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UI Design Patterns That Don't Scale

SQL Performance

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. It’s also a good way to not overwhelm the database servers … usually. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.

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MySQL or PostgreSQL: Which is Better?

Percona

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL do the basics very well From a high level, one relational database management system is pretty much like every other relational database management system. These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. In his free time he enjoys gardening and playing sports with his 4 kids. serving members in over 190 countries.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes. However, this is one of the least-explored topics to date.