Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.
This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications. But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.
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“Advanced web security topics” blog post goes over a variety of ways that a web application can get p0wned. Some of these include:
There’s a lot of confusion between git merge and git rebase even among seasoned users of git. “An Introduction to Git Merge and Git Rebase: What They Do and When to Use Them” is a great article explaining the pros and cons of each, and when and why using each of this is better.
While I understand it a lot better now, I still much prefer the merge approach. It’s simpler and less dangerous, and maintains the full history. This might get noisy at times, but works as a last resort when trying to understand what was going through the developer’s head when he was working on a piece of code.
Location: Platres
I am a big fan of Tim Minchin, and, of course, I’ve heard his Dark Side a million times. But I’ve never heard this version, which is absolutely awesome!
This is exactly the kind of thing one needs on Friday night. Enjoy!
P.S.: There’s apparently even the Evolution of Tim Minchin’s “Dark Side” Solo
P.P.S.: And I still enjoy the Rock and Roll Nerd a lot more.