…NewSQL - the State of the MySQL Ecosystem". You can help Matt with his presentation by participating in 451 Research's 2013 Database survey now.
Robert Hodges , CEO of Continuent, will leverage his over 30 years of database and application engineering experience when he presents his keynote entitled "Thinking Small About Big Data — How MySQL Can Thrive in the World of Massive Data Hype."
Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona, will …
The title was misleading since Matt opened by saying there is no silver bullet. But he did share some interesting tricks to avoid locking database tables during long migrations, and also outlined a way to migrate between API versions.
Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben Orenstein
One of my favorite talks of the conf, Ben gave several examples of smelly code and then proceeded to live code his way through various refactorings. Highly recommended.
Tomorrow I'll recap …
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…or something completely different, we believe "infrastructure as code" is universal and Matt's presentation provides an accessible dive into the workings of Chef.
For background, CME is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. More info on CME's Technology Conference, including the other presentations delivered over the course of the show, can be found here .
We launched the new Basecamp on March 6 . Since then we've deployed 891 new versions with all sorts of new features, bug fixes, and tweaks. Through all of that we've had just six incidents of either scheduled or unscheduled downtime for a total of 19 minutes offline.
Today, that means we've been available 99.99% of the time since launch. That's worth celebrating! Our fantastic operations teams consisting of Anton, Eron, John, Matt, Will, and Taylor…
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Ruby is more popular than ever, but it's also not as trendy as it used to be. rubylearning.com students 1 asked a few questions to Matt Aimonetti about his vision of Ruby in 2012 and for the future.
Matt Aimonetti is a well-known Rubyist, technical writer, speaker and active open-source contributor. He currently works as a software architect for LivingSocial . Prior to joining LivingSocial , Matt worked for Sony PlayStation .
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…, skaar, Martin. Also to Mark, Dave, Matt and Jason for sharing and caring when I visited the team.
What's next? How do I use BOSH?
Once you get a BOSH created, I've started some other tutorials for how to use BOSH as I figure it out. Perhaps it could become a handbook or guide in the future. If you find any bugs, or have suggestions, please drop a ticket in the Issues.
At the time of writing, there are the following tutorials/guides:
Creating a BOSH from …
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…Coby, Jonan, Colton, Luke, Timmy and Matt right there whenever we decide to do something or need some assistance. What I do know is that I already miss these people.
I'm from Portland and have spent the majority of my life there. All of my family is in Portland (Except for my sisters.), all of my wife's family is around Bend. For the longest time we've been coming to Portland for holidays and leisure. It felt like we were traveling to Portland to have fun and …
Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell, Matt Evans
This is a pretty neat examination of where bloat comes from taking V6 UNIX utilities as the baseline. It would be interesting to have a similar study on the database servers we all love and use.
Probably quite useful if you're dealing with PHP (although I wasn't in this session).
Finding vulnerabilities in PHP code (via static code analysis)
This …
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…accomplishment for any YouTube video, let alone one produced in Northern Ireland.
The video was put together by one of NI's talented young cinematographer's Matt Good (who incidentally happens to be my cousin). Well done to Matt and all Friends' staff and students involved in the video.
Makes me want to go back to school. Enjoy.
You can view some of Matt's earlier work here .
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- Global Nerdy: New Year's Resolutions for Techies in 2012
"It's important for programmers to challenge themselves," writes Matt Might. "Creative and technical stagnation is the only alternative."
With this in mind, he's put together a list of 12 month-size resolution, each one an "annually renewable technical or personal challenge. I'll list the resolutions below; check out his article to see the full details about each one.
Go analog.
Stay healthy.
Embrace the uncomfortable.
Learn a new programming …
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