MySQL 5.7 first impressions on group-replication

MySQL Performance Blog

During the last few weeks I’ve been testing and playing a bit with the new group-replication plugin available for MySQL 5.7. Before continuing I’d like to clarify some aspects: the plugin is only available in labs ... The post MySQL 5.7 first impressions…

29 October 2015

Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore

Hacker News

I want to create an iPhone app for my web service, but I don’t have programmers. Well, I don’t have iOS programmers. And I don’t have money. Sound familiar? What do I do? Right, I go to Upwork and find an awesome company in Bangalore that is excited to…

28 October 2015

9.5 Low Latency Decision as a Service Design Patterns

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A few hundred milliseconds latency is achievable for a complex fraud prevention system, but with very little wiggle room. In the past two years, we have selected a few design patterns that have helped us achieve our latency goals, using standard…

28 October 2015

Marco d'Itri: Per-process netfilter rules

Planet Debian

This article documents how the traffic of specific Linux processes can be subjected to a custom firewall or routing configuration, thanks to the magic of cgroups. We will use the Network classifier cgroup, which allows tagging the packets sent by specific…

27 October 2015

Why following software design best practices decreases code complexity

Hacker News

Most of us agree that in many cases following best practices leads to better code. Namely, it decreases the complexity and allows us to reason about even large software systems easier. But why is that so, exactly? Today, we’ll take two design principles –…

26 October 2015

HAproxy in the era of Microservices

Hacker News

“Microservices”, the latest architecture buzzword being thrown around to describe perhaps one of the most interesting architecture styles of this decade. In short, the microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single application as a…

26 October 2015

Show HN: Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X

Hacker News

Amazon Glacier for your Mac Buy now Also available on the Mac App Store Freeze keeps track of your vaults' inventories and makes them easily browsable and searchable. Save a few bucks by deleting duplicate archives from your vaults.…

25 October 2015

SDR Reception of Digital Amateur TV from the ISS

Hacker News

SDR reception of Digital Amateur TV from the ISS SDR reception of Digital Amateur TV from the ISS One goal of the present project is to significantly reduce costs and other barriers to entry. [IZ8YRR] already showed that interesting experiments can be…

25 October 2015