What is Big Data?
As IT and personal computing took over a mostly analogical world the amount of data generated by the impact is quickly growing to a size no one would’ve been able to predict. But when data is...
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MariaDB vs MySQL, a more detailed than most comparison
Databases are ubiquitous in the IT industry and pervasive in every other one. MySQL was arguably the most used open source database in the world, up until Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. That’s when the community decided...
How to install MySQL server on Ubuntu
MySQL is one of the most popular Open Source Relational DataBase Management System, RDBMS for short. MySQL is widely spread across the world, it is employed in enterprise environments as well as small hobbyist sites. Surprisingly,...
Serverless architecture: discover computing without… computers?
Cloud computing revolutionized the whole data-center IT stack, even more so, containers that broadened the already vast amount of technologies. But there is one technology, or rather, architecture that is bound to change the game again:...
MySQL 8.0: 9 new features to look into
MySQL is arguably the most popular Open Source DataBase Management System; release 8.0 DMR brings many improvements, some already anticipated by popular forks like MariaDB and Percona, and some not. Let’s take a look at what...
GitLab.com meltdown, how 5 different backup strategies failed
From time to time we hear of companies running large clusters of computers failing, but they are usually non-IT companies. This time the tragedy happened within GitLab.com’s walls: the popular startup known for GitLab, the popular...
How to install Microsoft SQL Server on Linux
During the past few years, Microsoft has been investing resources in Linux-related projects. Today you can install Microsoft SQL Server on Linux. All of it began with .NET being open-sourced.
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