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Storage engines, efficiency and large documents, rows, objects

smalldatum.blogspot.com

Storage engines for OLTP focus on storing small objects and by small object I mean sizeof(object)...
Storage engines for OLTP focus on storing small objects and by small object I mean sizeof(object) << sizeof(page). They can store larger objects but the engines are not optimized for that and both efficiency and performance will suffer. By larger objects I mean sizeof(object) >= sizeof(page). Given the growth of the...

databases
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A Complete Guide to Working With Cookies in Go - Alex Edwards

alexedwards.net

In this post we're going to run through how to use cookies in your Go web...
In this post we're going to run through how to use cookies in your Go web application to persist data between HTTP requests for a specific client. We'll start simple, and slowly build up a working application which covers the following topics: Hint: If you're new to web development and need a general introduction to...

go
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End-user Programming

inkandswitch.com

In their computing lives, power users often want simple extensibility. For example: adding download capability to...
In their computing lives, power users often want simple extensibility. For example: adding download capability to Instagram, setting up windows for a live-stream session, generating recipes and shopping lists for a home kitchen inventory, or automatically keeping timestamp-named backups of Illustrator documents. Des...

culture practices
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Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups? — Akita Software

akitasoftware.com

plt
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Markdown@Edge

edgecompute.app

rust show wasm web
1
Understanding GenStage back-pressure mechanism

dev.to

Back-pressure is a technique utilized to prevent an application or a piece of software of using...
Back-pressure is a technique utilized to prevent an application or a piece of software of using more resources than there are available on a given infrastructure. GenStage is an Elixir library to build complex processes divided by steps (or stages) that share data between them. This is the core behaviour used on Bro...

architecture coding computerscience elixir programming
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GitHub - JulienMalka/Linkal: A public-calendar aggregator server

github.com

rust
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The 4 minute bug

kinduff.com

Another fun, weird, and curious performance bug we discovered when scaling an application. It’s time for...
Another fun, weird, and curious performance bug we discovered when scaling an application. It’s time for one of those bug’s story. This one was introduced earlier but it’s related to “The story of the 20 million queries per hour”, not a consequence of that mistake, but it shares some related context. Introduction If...

debugging performance
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Effect of Clang modules on compilation time

observablehq.com

c++compilers
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A Proposal for a Flexible, Composable, Libre Desktop Environment

mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com

Note: I posted a better-formatted version of this document here as a PDF file. Unfortunately there...
Note: I posted a better-formatted version of this document here as a PDF file. Unfortunately there are some formatting glitches with Blogger's HTML editor. This is not an official project. This document describes my thoughts about a desktop environment intended for Unix-based operating systems that is libre (i.e., f...

design programming
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What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users

theevilskeleton.gitlab.io

Whenever I browse through the web, I find many “tips and tricks” from various blog writers,...
Whenever I browse through the web, I find many “tips and tricks” from various blog writers, YouTubers and others who recommend users to take steps that either they aren’t supposed to, or have better alternatives. In this article, I will go over some of those steps you should not be taking and explain why. Setting GT...

linux
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Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.09 is Out

plasma-mobile.org

linux mobile release
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Making python fast for free - adventures with mypyc

meadsteve.dev

performance programming python
2
Microspeak: Break glass

microsoft.com

practices
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Software Engineering Tips for CLMS Students | Cat Ball's Homepage

catball.dev

I did a presentation for the Computational Linguistics MS program orientation at UW, and consolidated the...
I did a presentation for the Computational Linguistics MS program orientation at UW, and consolidated the speaker notes into a blog post. I’m open to feedback and thoughts here! I tried to keep it fairly general, since some students are coming in with a linguistics background and more limited programming experience, while other students come from a CS background. I also tried to present...

practices
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The 6 Books New Redis Developers Should Read | Redis

redis.com

Just getting started with Redis? These books help you grasp the technical essentials and smooth the...
Just getting started with Redis? These books help you grasp the technical essentials and smooth the learning curve. Adopting any new-to-you technology can be daunting. There’s a lot to learn, from philosophical underpinnings to pragmatic how-to. That’s true for Redis newbies too. So we asked Redis experts – inside t...

book databases
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Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com

browsers global scope javascript web
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How to create a REST API with QtHttpServer

qt.io

September 27, 2022 by Konrad Kujawa | Comments Back in 2019 we announced QtHttpServer to the...
September 27, 2022 by Konrad Kujawa | Comments Back in 2019 we announced QtHttpServer to the public, now we are extremely happy to introduce a technical preview, starting in Qt 6.4. for this project. Qt Http Server is a high-level API that provides easy support for implementing an HTTP server in your application. It...

c++
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Bash 5.2 released [LWN.net]

lwn.net

release
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Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism

shwestrick.github.io

Many are well aware of the hazards of race conditions. But what about the benefits? There...
Many are well aware of the hazards of race conditions. But what about the benefits? There are situations where race conditions can be helpful for performance. By this, I mean that you can sometimes make a program faster by creating race conditions. Essentially, a small amount of non-determinism can help eliminate a ...

ml
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Find slow data processing tasks (before your customers do)

pythonspeed.com

performance
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Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime

cloudflare.com

birthday week cloudflare workers distributed javascript open source
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Speeding Up Three.JS with Depth-Based Fragment Culling - Casey Primozic's Homepage

cprimozic.net

ameo ameobea casey primozic graphics performance
2
LISTEN / NOTIFY: Automatic client notification in PostgreSQL

cybertec-postgresql.com

LISTEN / NOTIFY is a feature that enables users to listen to what goes on in...
LISTEN / NOTIFY is a feature that enables users to listen to what goes on in the database. It is one of the oldest functionalities in PostgreSQL and is still widely used. The main question is: What is the purpose of the asynchronous query interface (LISTEN / NOTIFY), and what is it good for? The basic idea is to avo...

databases
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