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December 18, 2015

November 20, 2015

When is my Cake Day?

Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.

October 31, 2015

October 06, 2015

Cloud Native MySQL Sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes

Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog. Cloud native technologies like Kubernetes help you compose scalable services out of a sea of small logical units. In our last post, we introduced Vitess(an open-source project that powers YouTube's main database) as a way of turning MySQL into a scalable Kubernetes application. Our goal was to make scaling your persistent datastore in Kubernetes as simple as scaling stateless app servers - just run a single command to launch more pods.

October 01, 2015

September 24, 2015

The Next 50 Years of Databases

Andy attempts to revive his blog by predicting what databases will look like in the year 2065.

August 01, 2015