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Why Uber Engineering Switched From Postgres to MySQL
Interesting read on why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL
TL;DR
Apparently Postgres does not scale really well and data gets corrupted over time.
The Corner Boys
Two dealers of illegal substances standing on a corner trying to make a sale and trying to kill time while waiting.
The facepalm
You may know the Football World Cup logo Brazil 2014 looking like a facepalm and thought to yourself that looked pretty funny.
Feed to mail [UPDATED]
It’s been a month since I posted the initial version of feed2mail.python and now I have some updates for you.
Feed to mail
A while back I started getting anti social and move all my news reading back to feeds and sent them to my email. I used Ifttt for this. It is a pretty good service for getting feeds into your mailbox. You can set up daily or weekly digest of a feed or you can just send a feed entry to you mail when is it posted. But what didn’t work as well were the mails I received eg. I can not change the layout of these mails. Ifttt is also shortening all links in the mails. This means they know which links I have clicked and I didn’t need that. Some links even failed to redirect and I was left at Ifttt with a message that the link didn’t work.