How to scale MongoDB? What are the best sharding practices? While flexible schema is how most people become familiar with MongoDB, it’s also one of the best databases (maybe even the best when it comes to everyday applications) for handling very, very large data sets. While the justification of this argument calls for a whole…
PHP is everywhere and is arguably the language most widely deployed on the Internet Web. However, it’s not exactly known for its high-performance capabilities, especially when it comes to highly concurrent systems. And that’s the reason that for such specialized use cases, languages such as Node (yes, I know, it’s not a language), Go and…
To some people learning a new programming language is an excess best avoided. Why, oh why, they argue, do we need yet another language? Don’t we have enough already? Aren’t the existing tools getting the job done? And then there are those tireless seekers who jump at the opportunity of trying new things and stumbling…
Attempts to design machines smarter than humans aren’t new. One of the very early attacks that computer science made on human “intelligence” was through the game of chess. Chess is (or should we say, was?) assumed by many as the ultimate test of human intellect and creativity, and back in the 1960-70s, there were different…
I once heard a front-end developer joke, “The NASA has landed robots on Mars, and here we’re still struggling to center-align our divs!” And it makes me feel bad that this joke has a lot of truth in it. Doing something that sounds as easy and common-sense-driven as centering a box within a box is…
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