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Whenever there is a configuration management discussion, there is always a debate that spins around "Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible vs SaltStack" topic (ok CFEngine people, don't be pissed, i will talk about it too). In general these discussions are…
1 July 2015Hacker News
Having grown up in Germany, Leif chose a career in software engineering. When joining the University of Victoria in Canada, Leif began to study how developers collaborate and work with others. Now working as the Head of Product at iDoneThis, Leif is…
1 July 2015Hacker News
This is a story of how my understanding about messaging with RabbitMQ evolved from ignorant to usable while hitting my head into the walls of the CAP theorem. I hope it will save some time for someone out there. Of course we will have guaranteed delivery!…
1 July 2015MySQL Performance Blog
Quite often, especially for benchmarks, I am trying to limit available memory for a database server (usually for MySQL, but recently for MongoDB also). This is usually needed to test database performance in scenarios with different memory limits. I have…
1 July 2015Hacker News
The Little Go Book is a free introduction to Google's Go programming language. It's aimed at developers who might not be quite comfortable with the idea of pointers and static typing. It's longer than the other Little books, but hopefully still captures…
28 June 2015Hacker News
A Go "clone" of the great and famous Requests library GRequests is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text * Responses can be serialized into JSON and XML * Support for the following HTTP verbs GET, HEAD,…
26 June 2015Hacker News
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24 June 2015Hacker News
Regular expressions are incantations that we developers wield mightily when the time calls. Yet, do we always wield them deftly? Regular expressions are a delicate and precise language. They are crafted with careful deliberation into powerful forces that…
23 June 2015MySQL Performance Blog
A question I often hear when customers want to set up a production PXC cluster is: “How many nodes should we use?” Three nodes is the most common deployment, but when are more nodes needed? They also ask: “Do we always need to use an even number of nodes?”…
23 June 2015Hacker News
It is not enough for code to simply work. Good code is meant to be easy to understand, and it is much easier to understand code that is readable. Traditionally, algorithms have often been explained in large comment blocks. The notion that writing many…
22 June 2015