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- Three Vacation Policies https://www.xaprb.com/blog/three-vacation-policies/ 45 comments
- Why I'm Not Waiting to Prioritize Diversity http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2016/04/18/why-prioritize-diversity-now/ 4 comments
- Time-Series Database Requirements http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/06/08/time-series-database-requirements/ 44 comments
- Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection (2013) http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/ 25 comments
- Why Deployment Freezes Don't Prevent Outages http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/11/29/code-freezes-dont-prevent-outages/ 11 comments
- If Eventual Consistency Seems Hard, Wait Till You Try MVCC http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/12/08/eventual-consistency-simpler-than-mvcc/ 48 comments
- What is it like to write a technical book? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/ 3 comments
- Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/ 46 comments
- Ultimate (paper) Notebook and Journal Faceoff http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/07/10/ultimate-notebook-and-journal-face-off/ 5 comments
- Computer Science students: Learn to write http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/08/04/computer-science-students-learn-to-write/ 62 comments
- Dr. Richard Hipp calls them "Postmodern Databases" http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/06/12/postmodern-databases/ 25 comments
- How to find per-process I/O statistics on Linux http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/08/23/how-to-find-per-process-io-statistics-on-linux/ 17 comments
- How to find un-indexed queries in MySQL, using tcpdump http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/08/18/how-to-find-un-indexed-queries-in-mysql-without-using-the-log/ 10 comments
- How to leave a program running after you log out http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/01/how-to-leave-a-program-running-after-you-log-out/ 2 comments
- What is it like to write a technical book? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/ 5 comments
- Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/18/why-is-mysql-more-popular-than-postgresql/ 5 comments
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- Time-Series Database Requirements (2014) https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/06/08/time-series-database-requirements/ 9 comments databases
- Defining Moments in Database History https://www.xaprb.com/blog/defining-moments-in-database-history/ 3 comments databases
- Is 100% uptime really possible? https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/07/03/is-100-uptime-really-possible/ 18 comments programming
- If Eventual Consistency seems hard, wait till you try MVCC http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/12/08/eventual-consistency-simpler-than-mvcc/ 15 comments programming
- Immutability, MVCC, and Garbage Collection http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/ 10 comments programming
- Building MySQL Database Applications with Go http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/03/20/building-mysql-database-applications-with-go/ 6 comments golang
- When to ignore perfectly good advice http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/12/20/when-to-ignore-perfectly-good-advice/ 7 comments golang
- Vim, the ultimate command-line password manager http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/06/11/vim-the-ultimate-command-line-password-manager/ 12 comments vim
- Wikipedia concensus: Linux is an operating system http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/01/wikipedias-concensus-linux-is-an-operating-system/ 11 comments linux
- Using Devel::FastProf to find slow Perl code http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/23/using-develfastprof-to-find-slow-perl-code/ 2 comments perl
- How to unit-test code that interacts with a database http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/19/how-to-unit-test-code-that-interacts-with-a-database/ 11 comments programming
- What is it like to write a technical book? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/ 36 comments programming
- Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/18/why-is-mysql-more-popular-than-postgresql/ 105 comments programming
- Five great Perl programming techniques to make your life fun again http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/10/05/five-great-perl-programming-techniques-to-make-your-life-fun-again/ 57 comments programming
- What would make me buy MySQL Enterprise? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/12/what-would-make-me-buy-mysql-enterprise/ 2 comments programming
- Why I write Free Software http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/06/19/why-i-write-free-software/ 10 comments programming
- How to find the max row per group in SQL without subqueries http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/03/14/how-to-find-the-max-row-per-group-in-sql-without-subqueries/ 2 comments programming