Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

Hacker News

Add new features to Paw through easy-to-build JavaScript-based extensions. Whether you want to have generated client code for your favorite yet exotic language or you want to compute custom authentication schemes on the fly, extensions give a way to make…

23 October 2017

MySQL Point in Time Recovery the Right Way

Percona Database Performance Blog

In this blog, I’ll look at how to do MySQL point in time recovery (PITR) correctly. Sometimes we need to restore from a backup, and then replay the transactions that happened after the backup was taken. This is a common procedure in most disaster recovery…

23 October 2017

How Retailers Use Personalized Prices

Hacker News

Orbitz, the travel website, offers slightly different prices to customers who are shopping through its app or a computer, and even between two different users on the same platform. Some of this may be due to experimentation and testing, but it’s also a…

22 October 2017

Reusable and type-safe options for Go APIs

Hacker News

In this blog post, I would like to describe an extension to the popular “functional options” pattern that has been described by people like Rob Pike and Dave Cheney. I recommend reading one of these articles if you are unfamiliar with this pattern, as…

22 October 2017

The best DSLR for beginners

Engadget

By Mike Perlman This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter, reviews for the real world. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Read the full artic...

22 October 2017

React is the new Dojo

Hacker News

The Web is much bigger than we think.“Dojo has already won.” said Alex Russell. We sat at a long chest-high table on the top floor of 543 Sansome st in San Francisco. The top two floors had been renovated and decked out by Mitch Kapor to house several of…

21 October 2017

Librestd: a library to create C++ RESTful API services

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A low dependencies and self contained library to create C++ RESTful API services ( UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT ). This library and the underlying HTTP server component do not support the full HTTP specs but were rather implemented with speed and simplicity in…

21 October 2017

Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0 Is Now Available

Percona Database Performance Blog

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0. This release introduces the support of external Prometheus exporters so that you can create dashboards in the Metrics monitor even for the monitoring services other than those…

21 October 2017