Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Want to deploy WordPress 5.0 on the Now platform by ZEIT ? Our friends over at ZEIT’s Now global serverless deployment platform whipped up a great tutorial for WordPress5-on-Now using cheap MySQL hosting instances from ScaleGrid. With such strong interest in this installation, we decided to write up the steps to configure your MySQL database on the ScaleGrid side to get you up and running ever faster with WordPress on Now.

Serverless 138

Serverless Azure Database Cache 138

Edge Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I recently wrote about the growing fear produced by the mounting performance pressure of the Big Shift. As fear grows we have a natural human reaction to hold onto what we have. While very understandable, that reaction can also be very dangerous and lead us to miss the expanding opportunities created by the Big Shift. The two most prominent images – walls and safety nets - dominating much of our conversation these days are manifestations of our fear and desire to hold onto what we have.

Virtualization 46

Virtualization Programming Design Scalability 46

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When creating a web application that handles user information it is a good idea to protect anything considered sensitive rather than storing it as plaintext within a database. The goal is to make it as difficult as possible for a malicious person to obtain access to this sensitive information. Rather than encrypting sensitive information with the knowledge that it can one day become decrypted, it is better to hash this sensitive data instead because hashing is a one-way process.

Database 40

Database Processing Development 40

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

SQL Server 2017 leverages up to 4 log writer workers, on hidden schedulers, to assist in transaction log processing activities. You may find the number of log write workers has been increased to 8 when running newer releases of SQL Server to accommodate larger systems. (Caution: Pre-release software may change before final release.). During SQL Server startup the number of log writer workers is determined.

Servers 40

Servers Availability Software Software 40