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Citus 6.1 Released – Horizontally scale your Postgres database
Original EnglishWe've been running on Citus for about 2 months now, with a saas app that has lots of reporting functionality.
Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change
Original EnglishAt one point we saved time by copying and pasting data from one table into another through the management GUI rather than fight all the …
My return to desktop applications
Original EnglishI'm using this to shake down all the cross-platform problems for my metaverse client.
Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
Original English- I never properly benchmarked the two in a comprehensive comparison, but Nginx Unit is definitely faster than the aforementioned previous stack.
What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?
Original EnglishI worked there for a few months more than 15 year ago, and they already had a nationwide database mostly loaded from 9-track tape. …
My negative views on Rust (2023)
Original EnglishThe big difference (inasmuch as I am aware) is in source compatibility in practice.
Show HN: Bulk convert images online without sending to server
Original EnglishI also implemented a batched client-side web tool to resize photos to a certain file size (in a few hundred lines of JS).
Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?
Original English- yes, but we use them in testing environments and turn them off in prod
Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud
Original EnglishWhen we made our first major Linux deployment this year there's no way I would have picked anything but RHEL/CentOS, we have critical services running …