The Mysql2 gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating on results. Some database libraries out there serve as direct 1:1 mappings of the already complex C ...

This week, Facebook's development organization announced its completion of the type of tasks that enterprises dread: a major upgrade to its core database. Larry Dignan outlined the high points in his ...

Facebook outlined its migration to MySQL 8.0, a bevy of headaches and a timeline that highlights those upgrades can be a pain even for a company known for its engineering prowess and scale. In a blog ...

This morning for some unkown reason my server started crashing. After some debugging I noticed that the previous day I had installed node.js, which probably means that I ran a brew update, which as a ...