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Percona Monitoring and Management

MySQL Performance Blog

Percona is excited to announce the launch of Percona Monitoring and Management Beta! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a fully open source solution for both managing MySQL platform performance and tuning query performance. It ...

How we're dealing with lost 2-factor authentication tokens

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A recent story about a VPS provider customer losing two servers due to social engineering sparked a conversation we have regularly at Exoscale: How do you handle lost 2-factor token requests? Two-factor authentication relies on securing access to your…

Shrink Go binaries 7x with this one weird trick

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Ok, I lied, there's no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools. Note: I don't actually believe a 30MB static binary is a problem in this day and age, and I would not trade (build…

Creating Geo-Enabled applications with MongoDB, GeoJSON and MySQL

MySQL Performance Blog

This blog post will discuss creating geo-enabled applications with MongoDB, GeoJSON and MySQL. Introduction Recently I published a blog post about the new GIS features in MySQL 5.7. Today I’ve looked into how to use ...

Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU

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Disclaimer: the demos on this page use WebGL features that aren’t available on many mobile devices. For the best experience, read this on a Desktop computer. What is a Voronoi diagram? Suppose you have a clean, blank canvas. I rudely paint three dots on…

Linux QoS for humans

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Sign in Sign up GitHub is home to over 31 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. Sign up You should install QoS on all your servers How to write new module You should install QoS on…

How to access advanced OpenType features in a variety of apps

Macworld

Fancy typography doesn’t require expensive software. Thanks to the OpenType font format, the newest versions of everyday software (and the pro stuff) can tap into a multitude of alternate character designs if you know where to look. In this column, you’ll…

EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON wrap-up

MySQL Performance Blog

This blog is an EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON wrap-up for the series of posts I’ve done in the last few months. In this series, we’ve discussed everything unique to [crayon-57051bffbe5af224462186-i/]. I intentionally skipped a description of members ...

Google opens up its tool for testing your Android phone's lag

Engadget

For years, Google has had tools to test the lag in Android and Chrome OS devices, letting it know when bad hardware or sloppy software is causing delays in touch input or voice commands. Wish you could check that lag yourself? As of now, you can: Goo...