Year: 2018

A Comprehensive Guide To Web Design

“A Comprehensive Guide To Web Design” is a rather lengthy article that focuses on the non-technical bits of the web design.  It’s not about the tools and technologies, but more about the meaning and good practices.  The article covers the design of navigation, content, call to action, web forms, accessibility, and other important bits which are frequently forgotten.

GitHub : Quickly review changed functions in your PHP pull requests

GitHub is one of the greatest tools for developers ever.  And it keeps getting better.  Most of the new features that GitHub introduces are usually generic and apply to all developers universally.  Today, however, they have a special present for the PHP developers – Quickly review changed functions in your PHP pull requests.  This is mighty useful, especially on the larger pull requests.

7 ways to do containers on AWS

“7 ways to do containers on AWS” covers a variety of different ways to run containers on the Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure.  These include most of the usual suspects, like Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), and hand-rolled vanilla containers on EC2, as well as a few lesser known ones like templated Kubernetes and Amazon Fargate.

Vue.js — answering the Why, after 15 months

Harshal Patil shares his positive experience with the Vue.js JavaScript framework, after using it for just over a year in “Vue.js — answering the Why, after 15 months“.  As many before him, he focuses on the virtual DOM, optional but powerful build system, state management, single file components, performance, testability, and a few other benefits of this particular technology.

It’s good overall article for those who are still deciding which JavaScript framework to go with for their next project.

TOP 10 MySQL 8.0 features for DBAs & OPS

Here’s a list of the TOP 10 MySQL 8.0 features for DBAs and OPS, with some detailed explanations of what they are and links to more information.  The features covered are:

  1. Temporary Tables Improvements
  2. Persistent global variables
  3. No more InnoDB System Tables
  4. Reclaim UNDO space from large transactions
  5. UTF8 performance
  6. Removing Query Cache
  7. Atomic DDLs
  8. Faster & More Complete Performance Schema (Histograms, Indexes, …) and Information Schema
  9. ROLES
  10. REDO & UNDO logs encrypted if tablespace is encrypted