Uber Engineering

JULY 26, 2016

By Evan Klitzke. Introduction. The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence. Since that time, the architecture of Uber has changed significantly, to a model of microservices and … The post Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 29, 2016

When it comes to software development there are many different items to develop for. I’ve spent most of my developer life creating applications for the web, desktop, and mobile, but when it comes to possibilities it doesn’t end there. In recent years the Internet of Things (IoT) has been taking over. In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker Jen Looper and I discuss the Internet of Things and what you need to get started as a developer.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 23, 2016

This post is not about a specific SQL Server object but instead outlines a technique used in various locations to reduce contention while still providing thread synchronization. There are hundreds of locations throughout the SQL Server code base that must account for multi-threaded access. A common technique used in multi-threaded coding is a reader, writer lock.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 25, 2016

I’ve written a few articles about how I’m using my many Raspberry Pi units. Recently I wrote about using a Raspberry Pi as an automatic network backup server , but I didn’t talk about expanding the storage beyond the micro or standard sized SD card. What if you want to utilize a much larger USB hard drive or thumb drive? By default Linux won’t mount the drive, and heck, it may not even be in the correct format.

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