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Tech job interviews are broken
I have a friend who was hit by a workforce reduction at a company I used to work at (as was his entire department). He is a brilliant engineer who has worked on some massive projects. But is struggling to find somewhere new in-part due to the insane way the recruitment process works in our… Read more
2017-08-31
Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump
Sometimes network protocols don’t entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way you can sometimes find a need to sniff the traffic of a connection to find out what is really going on. Read more
2017-08-29
Part of my history inside InfiniDB/ColumnStore
Several years ago there was a fork of the unreleased MySQL 6.0 called Drizzle. It was designed to be a lightweight, cloud/web/UTF8 first database server with a microkernel style core. I worked for a while as one of the core developers of Drizzle until the corporate sponsor I worked for ceased funding its development. Read more
2017-08-28
Linux tools: silver searcher
After my previous post about ack a Twitter follower, Nick Morrott, pointed out that there is a potentially better tool than ack. Have you tried ag? Much faster than ack, especially on large codebases — @nickmorrott@fosstodon.org 🦣 (@nickmorrott) August 24, 2017 Read more
2017-08-25
Linux tools: ack and memleakx
My day job requires me to spend a lot of time in Linux terminals, hammering away at MariaDB ColumnStore to write and test new code as well as finding and fixing bugs. I have decided to write about the tools I use to get the job done, especially newer ones I have discovered. Read more
2017-08-24
Building BLOBs in MariaDB ColumnStore
My team and I are working on finalizing the feature set for MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 right now and I wanted to take a bit of time to talk about one of the features I created for ColumnStore 1.1: BLOB/TEXT support. Read more
2017-08-23

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