This article about Wikimedia’s CDN popped up on lobste.rs today.
What it takes to run Stack Overflow
Today What it takes to run Stack Overflow popped up on r/programming. It’s an old article (2013) but still interesting. It referenced Performance is a Feature and made the bold-font claim that “the cost of inefficient code can be higher than you think.”
The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance
Today I read The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance which popped up on reddit.
Semipredicate problem
Today I read about the Semipredicate problem. Basically how to signal failure from a called function.
Null
Stumbled upon the Null (SQL) Wikipedia article. Looks interesting. Will read.
Catalogue of threats & vulnerabilities
Today I was referred to this catalogue of threats & vulnerabilities.
Guide to the Fediverse
I stumbled upon Guide to the Fediverse today. But I didn’t take the time to read it carefully.
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel
This popped up on Hacker News today: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel. I wonder if we can infer from this that AMD Radeon graphics cards are well supported on Linux..? I might buy one for my next workstation…
Australian Industry
I was trying to find a report on industries by market size but I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. But I did find Australian Industry reports from ABS and List of countries by GDP sector composition which were both interesting.
Spreadsheet INDEX and MATCH
I don’t use spreadsheets much, and when I do it’s usually LibreOffice Calc, but today I came across Index and Match which described the INDEX and MATCH spreadsheet functions and that looked handy so I thought I might make a note!