High Scalability
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. ( bloomberg ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.
KeyCDN
OCTOBER 2, 2018
In the world of web development, those who become experts usually do so by learning from their predecessors. Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why in this post, we’ve compiled a list of the top web development blogs that will help you find your footing and acquire essential skills in modern web dev.
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Percona Community
OCTOBER 3, 2018
For Percona Live Europe, I’ll be presenting the tutorial Elasticsearch 101 alongside my colleagues and fellow presenters from ObjectRocket Alex Cercel, DBA, and Mihai Aldoiu, Data Engineer. Here’s a brief overview of our tutorial. Elasticsearch® is well known as a highly scalable search engine that stores data in a structure optimized for language based searches but its capabilities and use cases don’t stop there.
ACM Sigarch
OCTOBER 4, 2018
This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.
High Scalability
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Who's Hiring? Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world.
Website Optimization
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Digital ad spending passed TV for the first time in 2017 (Kafka & Molla 2017). In fact, digital ads will make up 50% of all ad spending by the end of 2018, faster than expected (Berwitz 2018). With the growing penetration of digital advertising, it's important to use the most effective online advertising channels. This article summarizes an empirical study that ranked digital advertising channels by their effectiveness on sales.
Percona
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Some time ago, a customer had a performance issue with an internal process. He was comparing, finding, and reporting the rows that were different between two tables. This is simple if you use a LEFT JOIN and an IS NULL comparison over the second table in the WHERE clause, but what if the column could be null? That is why he used UNION, GROUP BY and a HAVING clauses, which resulted in poor performance.
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The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
A little over a decade ago, I was part of a team introducing new practices to a 200+ person, distributed development team. A lot of people were too quick to understand them. Some participated in stand-up as if it were a one-way status meeting. Others were still creating long-lived branches in Perforce as if they were still using ClearCase. "Stories" was just a new word for the technical tasks they had always assigned.
Strategic Tech
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. Hiring is so hard?—?finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business.
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