Index and Search Hacker News Using Elasticsearch and the HN API

Hacker News

Hacker News officially released their API this October, giving access to a vast amount of news articles, comments, polls, job postings, etc and via JSON, perfect to put it into Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is currently the most popular Open-Source search…

2 January 2015

The MySQL Query Cache: How it works, plus workload impacts (good and bad)

MySQL Performance Blog

Query caching is one of the prominent features in MySQL and a vital part of query optimization. It is important to know how it works as it has the potential to cause significant performance improvements – or a slowdown – of your workload. The MySQL query…

2 January 2015

Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore

Hacker News

Join over 12,000 others, and learn how to start spending your time on what matters most. Plus, immediately get the single most valuable lesson I’ve learned in my professional life — one that took me years of trial and error to discover. Get the first…

1 January 2015

HomeControl: HomeKit bridge written in Go

Hacker News

HomeControl is a HomeKit implementation in Go. It helps you to bridge existing Home Automation accessories to HomeKit. You can also use it to create your own HomeKit accessory. HomeControl is available on Github. Fork on Github LIFX Bridge LIFX offers…

1 January 2015

Web Performance APIs

Hacker News

Generally, I prefer to mention the bad news first: * Websites will continue to become more complex and bigger. * Our demand for speed and patience will certainly not decline. These facts shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who cares about web…

1 January 2015

Runtime-Compiled C++

Hacker News

Runtime-Compiled C++ is a way to reliably make major changes to your C++ code at runtime and see the results immediately. It's aimed at games development but could be useful in any industry where turnaround times are a bottleneck. * Windows XP+, Visual…

1 January 2015

The Secret to Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult

Hacker News

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28 December 2014

Vasudev Kamath: Notes: LXC How-To

Planet Debian

LXC - Linux Containers allows us to run multiple isolated Linux system under same control host. This will be useful for testing application without changing our existing system. To create an LXC container we use the command, it can accepts the template…

26 December 2014