Salary Survey: Pay Rises for Key Tech Skills Dice Staff, March 28, 2017 5 min read Storage and networking skills prompted pay increases for tech pros across the country, with hospitality, Internet,...
Case Study: A Slowdown in Software David Bolton, January 12, 2017 9 min read One of my clients in London operates a taxi firm and uses a proprietary system developed quite a few years ago to...
Choosing PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB David Bolton, December 3, 2015 7 min read Check out this recent chart from Google Trends, which shows interest in PostgreSQL largely holding steady over the...
Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB David Bolton, March 19, 2015 6 min read For the past ten years, developers and tech pros have made a game of comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL, with the latter...
MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Comparison Jeff Cogswell, May 22, 2013 14 min read The MariaDB Blog's performance test. MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns...
Widenius on MySQL: Oracle’s Suffocating It Nick Kolakowski, May 6, 2013 3 min read Michael Widenius, co-founder of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), has something of a bone to...