Character encoding is a very bad beast when you write code, but UTF-8 will save us. Belive me: You will love the Big Brother and the UTF-8. Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and …
I admit it. I suffered from an “algebra narcoleptic syndrome” during my relational database lessons at University (1996 circa). Ok it is a fake. But it seems so real on these days. I was unable to avoid sleeping. I learned to love SQL after some years and now I think SQL is the most powerful, …
SQL: One of the most valuable skills – Craig Kerstiens Read More »
At Dropbox, Kafka clusters are managed by the Jetstream team, whose primary responsibility is to provide high quality Kafka services. Understanding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure is crucial in making proper provisioning decision for different use cases, and this has been an important goal for the team. Recently, we created an automated testing platform …
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isync: free IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizerisync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes; currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways. isync is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode.Synchronization is based on unique message identifiers (UIDs), so no identification conflicts can occur …
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The department of defense, has published a nice document to “detect” agile bullshit. The document is called DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05 and was published on October 2018. We saved a copy on our site, because we think it is very very interesting…
On these days I decided to tune a bit my new shiny linux server box. I started to set up fail2ban. I think fail2ban is very imporant nowadays because it is a good example of a tool for slowing down attacks without closing your server too much. Fail2ban is a daemon: it wll monitor your …
Alfine mio figlio di otto anni mi ha fatto una domanda su Salvini. Sarà che è sempre in TV insieme a Di Maio, che non si parla d’altro o che il populismo è accessibile alle nuove generazioni. In TV passano immagini di gente che muore in mare. Riconosco che l’immigrazione non gestita possa diventare un …
I am studying Apache Kafka (a “distributed streaming platform”) and I stubled upon this conclusion: the “disk read fear” a lot of projects have in the past, is a fake. A lot of distributed database started tutorial with the statement “disk read are slow, write are fast” which is true to some extent, and accounted …
?FileSystem is faster than RAM [under your Operating System] Read More »
Nel 1492 Colobo scoprì l’America scommettendo sul fatto che la terra fosse tonda. In realtà c’erano parecchie prove indirette, ma nessuno lo aveva ancora dimostrato, e soprattutto i rischi di andare per mare erano altissimi. Ora girano per internet teorie complottiste che Inizio a pensare che ci sia un limite alla quantità di informazione che …
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980 – Paleotronic Magazine A sticky post for Dicember 2018
