Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development

Hacker News

The Book that teaches SQL to developers: learn to replace thousands of lines of code with simple queries! Learn how to deal with SQL in your developer workflow: versioning, testing, code reviewing, deployment. Best practice and tools are covered. Learn…

6 November 2017

How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play

Hacker News

How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit PlayNot long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are interested in an American…

5 November 2017

How to build a wireless street lighting system

Hacker News

From Proof-of-Concept with Off-the-Shelf Hardware to Professional System Street lights can account for up to 40% of a city’s energy cost. Wireless street lighting control can cut that cost by half and remote monitoring can detect broken lamps…

4 November 2017

The decentralized WeTransfer

Hacker News

The simplest way to send unlimited files around the world Filenation lets you send files as a link to an email. The files cannot be censored as they are sent stored and transmitted decentralised because it uses the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS…

4 November 2017

Top books to inspire CIOs and IT professionals in 2017

Hacker News

Presenting the most talked about books on Hacker News, Stack Overflow and Reddit Best of the Best Top 10 books to inspire CIOs and IT professionals in 2018 Do you love business and technology? These 10 books are good for people who is CIO or…

4 November 2017

My VM is lighter and safer than your container

Hacker News

an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning, as selected by Adrian Colyer My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container Manco et al., SOSP’17 Can we have the…

2 November 2017

MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check

Percona Database Performance Blog

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MySQL vs. MariaDB (including Percona Server for MySQL). Introduction The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform…

2 November 2017

How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS

Hacker News

How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS. How does this work? Here’s the short version: it…

30 October 2017