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Every educated person really ought to have a basic understanding of accounting. Just like maths, science, programming, music, literature, history, etc., it’s one of those things which helps you make sense of the world. Although dealing with money is not much fun, it’s an unavoidable part of life, so you might as well…
You probably have heard about alleged vote fraud in the Russian legislative election 2011. You might even have seen videos about cases of vo...
ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
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ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
A memory image replaces database interactions with in-memory data using event sourcing to record persistent changes
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What's the problem? Here at Google, we have thousands of engineers working on our code base every day. In fact, as previously noted , 50%...
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Copy-on-write B-tree finally beaten by Andy Twigg, Andrew Byde, Grzegorz Mi?o´s, Tim Moreton, John Wilkesy and Tom Wilkie.
Here are a list of features which I think are generally underrated in PostgreSQL and why. Many though not all of these are being used in t...
The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolera...
I was an A/B test skeptic. Maybe we don’t want to be second-guessed. Maybe we don’t want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Designers are taught—explicitly and implicitly—to follow certain visual rules and the final design will work great. The whole A/B testing concept probably …
