About once a year, there's a blog post from one of the current Tech Unicorns about how they had a big data problem and solved it with a slightly non-standard usage of MySQL. This is a really good thing, because… continue reading
Continuing the discussion around transactions, consistency, and MySQL, we consider transaction isolation levels. Setting the TXIL Per Session Remember in MySQL we have auto-commit=1. When you set the transaction isolation level with a statement, that only lasts one transaction… continue reading
What's Been Happening Recently Is consistency even important? We know it's contentious. Some people find it extremely important, and we all at least pay lip service to it. But really... how much effort should we put toward making sure we've… continue reading
Front End style guides have been well publicised recently, with many examples being made available for all to see. They're a popular and effective way of creating usage guidelines for Interfaces that adhere to an agreed upon design ethic. They… continue reading
Bigcommerce's hosted the February Angular SF Meetup and our Front-End Engineer, Alex Taylor gave the talk: "Unidirectional data flow in Angular 1.x apps" (9.5/10 for that name) So why is managing application state hard? Alex… continue reading