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Database Sharding Explained
More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding, which could solve their difficulties. This article explains database sharding, its benefits, including how to use it and when not to.
12 Factor App Revisited
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear.
Redis Explained
A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
Relational Databases Explained
How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.
Fallacies of Distributed Systems
Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
Arc Note: Datasette - Simon Willison
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
Monoliths, Service Architecture, and Microservices
There are many discussions about which level of system granulation is the best. We went from monoliths to microservices and back again.
Redis Explained
A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
Relational Databases Explained
How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.
Fallacies of Distributed Systems
Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
Arc Note: Datasette - Simon Willison
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
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