Percona Database Performance Blog
“I think most of the time hackers behind the attacks do it just for fun, because they can and because it’s very simple”, — says Diachenko. Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of…
10 August 2020InfoQ - JavaScript
In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling. By Deepak Vohra
10 August 2020Hacker News
Some years ago I decided to install a server at home for use as a NAS (network-attached storage) in my home network, and for an Internet-facing server. I live in a place where blackouts are very infrequent (perhaps a couple per year), but occasionally the…
10 August 2020InfoQ
After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers have slightly modified Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%,…
10 August 2020InfoQ - HTML5
The new Bootstrap 5 removes jQuery and no longer supports Internet Explorer (IE). By Vivian Hu
9 August 2020Hacker News
Despite using a FTTH internet connection since 2014, aside from the one fiber uplink, I had always used network gear with 1 Gbit/s links over regular old rj45 cat5(e) cables. I liked the simplicity and uniformity of that setup, but decided it’s time to…
9 August 2020InfoQ - API
In a recent apidays webinar, Mike Amundsen, trainer and author of the recent O’Reilly book “API Traffic Management 101”, presented “High Performing APIs: Architecting for Speed at Scale”. Drawing on recent research by IDC, he argued that organisations will…
7 August 2020Macworld
When you first upgrade to iOS 14, either in beta or when it releases in the fall, you’ll be treated to some big obvious improvements. The new, more customizable home screen with widgets and the App Library will make an immediate difference in how you use…
6 August 2020Percona Database Performance Blog
At the Percona engineering team, we often receive requests to analyze changes in MySQL/Percona Server for MySQL behavior from one version to another, either due to regression or a bug fix (when having to point out to a customer that commit X has fixed…
6 August 2020InfoQ - Architecture & Design
With an emphasis on distributed tracing, this article discusses best practices for gaining and leveraging observability into AWS Lambda functions. By Michele Mancioppi
6 August 2020