Interesting Snippets from 2015-06-28

• 9 JavaScript Libraries for Working with Local Storage

  The HTML5 Local Storage API (part of Web Storage) has excellent browser support and is being used in more and more applications. It has a simple API and certainly has its drawbacks, similar to cookies. Over the past year or so I’ve come across quite a few tools and libraries that use the localStorage API so I’ve compiled many of them together into this post with some code examples and discussion of the features.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-06-24

• Heroku PostgreSQL vs. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL | via @codeship

  PostgreSQL is becoming the relational database of choice for web development for a whole host of good reasons. That means that development teams have to make a decision on whether to host their own or use a database as a service provider. The two biggest players in the world of PostgreSQL are Heroku PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-06-17

• dimsemenov/PhotoSwipe · GitHub

  JavaScript image gallery for mobile and desktop, modular, framework independent

• Exception Monitoring and Response - GitHub Engineering

  Like most software applications, GitHub can generate a few exceptions. Incoming exceptions range from system-level issues including Git timeouts and missing references, to application-level issues including simple code mistakes and JavaScript errors. We take stability and performance seriously, so we need a way to quickly identify issues as they surface, determine the best teams or individuals to ping, and ship any relevant changes as soon as possible. Haystack helps us do that.

• mozilla/metrics-graphics · GitHub

  A library optimized for concise, principled data graphics and layouts. http://metricsgraphicsjs.org

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-06-12

• linkedin/pinot · GitHub

  Pinot is a realtime distributed OLAP datastore, which is used at LinkedIn to deliver scalable real time analytics with low latency. It can ingest data from offline data sources (such as Hadoop and flat files) as well as online sources (such as Kafka). Pinot is designed to scale horizontally.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-06-10

• The 11 deadly sins of product development - O'Reilly Radar

  Creating great hardware and software means avoiding these product-killing pitfalls.

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