KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The graphics interchange format, better known as GIF, has been around for longer than the World Wide Web itself. Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized.

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Percona Community

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is celebrating the creators of free software with their I Love Free Software campaign #ilovefs, a social campaign for Valentine’s Day. The idea is to show some appreciation to the makers of free software. Most of our communications with free software creators are about bugs and feature requests and maybe we just forget to say “Thanks” So FSFE are trying to provide some balance.

Software 40

Software Software 40

Baron Schwartz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I wrote yesterday about Vitess , a scale-out sharding solution for MySQL. Another similar product is Citus , which is a scale-out sharding solution for PostgreSQL. Similar to Vitess, Citus is successfully being used to solve problems of scale and performance that have previously required a lot of custom-built middleware. Citus solves the following problems for users: Sharding.

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Analytics Open Source Database Servers 40

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. I call this pattern The Gateway Interchange Context. It’s an independent piece of software that sits conceptually at the edge of your architecture and mediates communication between agents outside the architecture and those within it.

Architecture 40

Architecture Monitoring Strategy Software 40