January 05, 2023
Favorite compiler and interpreter resources
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January 04, 2023
Faster MySQL with HTTP/3
General book recommendations
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January 03, 2023
Can your application handle all BIGINT values?
In the past I’ve written about monitoring identity columns to ensure there’s room to grow. But there’s a related danger that’s a little more subtle. Say you have a table whose identity column is an 8-byte bigint. An application that converts those values to a 4-byte integer will not always fail! Those applications will only […]
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COMMIT Latency: Aurora vs. RDS MySQL 8.0
Let’s examine COMMIT latency on Aurora v2 (MySQL 5.7) vs. Aurora v3 (MySQL 8.0) vs. RDS MySQL 8.0 2-AZ vs. RDS MySQL 8.0 3-AZ “cluster”.
January 01, 2023
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
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December 31, 2022
Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy is back with his analysis of the database world in 2022, including VC funding, blockchains, and Larry Ellison.
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December 22, 2022
Blip: A New Open Source MySQL Metrics Collector
Blip is a new open source MySQL metrics collector, or “MySQL monitor” for short. But isn’t collecting MySQL metrics easy? And don’t we already have some open source MySQL monitors? Let’s take a trip down memory lane…