Great Interactive Map of NYC Startups
Business Insider posted this spectacular interactive google map of our amazing Startup Ecosystem here in New York City. Wow!
Check out the full list of NYC Startups in the original article.
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Book Review – Effective MySQL
Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements
by Ronald Bradford
No Nonsense, Readable, Practical, and Compact
I like that this book is small; 150 pages means you can carry it easily. It's also very no nonsense. It does not dig too deeply into theory unless it directly relates to your day-to-day needs. And those needs probably cluster heavily around optimizing SQL queries, as those pesky developers are always breaking things 
Jokes aside, this new book out on Oracle Press is a very readable volume. Bradford has drawn directly from real-world experience to give you the right bite size morsels you need in your day-to-day MySQL activities.
5 Tips to Cache Websites and Boost Speed
Often when we think about speeding up and scaling, we focus on the application layer itself. We look at the webserver tier, and database tier, and optimize the most resource intensive pages.
There's much more we can do to speed things up, if we only turn over the right stones. Whether you're using WordPress or not, many of these principals can be applied. However we'll use WordPress as our test case.
Oracle Announces Paid MySQL Add-ons
Oracle starts charging for MySQL Add-ons
Exciting news, Oracle just announced commercial MySQL extensions that they'll be offering paid extensions to the core MySQL free product.
To be sure, this has raised waves of concern among the community, but on the whole I suspect it will be a good thing for MySQL. This brings more commercial addons to the table, which only increases the options for customers. Many will continue to use the core database product only, and avoid license hassles while others will surely embark on a hybrid approach if it solves their everyday business problems.
3 Biggest MySQL Migration Surprises
3 ways your MySQL migration project can shake you up
Once a development or operations team gets over the hurdle of open-source, and start to feel comfortable with the way software works outside of the enterprise world, they will likely start to settle in and feel comfortable. Best not to get too cushy though for there are more surprises hiding around the corner. Here are a few of the biggest ones.
5 Things That Are Toxic to Scalability
Scalability is about application, architecture and infrastructure design, and careful management of server components.
1. Object Relational Mappers
ORMs are popular among developers but not among performance experts. Why is that? Primarily these two engineers experience a web application from entirely different perspectives. One is building functionality, delivering features, and results are measured on fitting business requirements. Performance and scalability are often low priorities at this stage. ORMs allow developers to be much more productive, abstracting away the SQL difficulties of interacting with the backend datastore, and allowing them to concentrate on building the features and functionality.
5 Tips for Better Database Change Management
Deploying new code that includes changes to your database schema doesn't have to be a process fraught with stress and burned fingers. Follow these five tips and enjoy a good nights sleep.
1. Deploy with Roll Forward & Rollback Scripts
When developers check-in code that requires schema changes, that release should also require two scripts to perform database changes. One script will apply those changes, alter tables to add columns, change data types, seed data, clean data, create new tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers and so forth. A release should also include a rollback script, which would return tables to their previous state.
5 Scalability Pitfalls to Avoid
1. Object Relational Mappers
Software development has always made use of libraries, off-the-shelf components that are shared between different projects. These allow you to stand on the shoulders of others and build bigger things. Frameworks do the same thing, they provide a context from which to build on. Ruby on Rails for example provides a great starting framework from which to build web applications, managing sessions in an elegant way.
4 Considerations Migrating to The Cloud
When migrating to the cloud consider security and resource variability, the cultural shift for operations and the new cost model.
Review – Who Moved My Cheese
Spencer Johnson is a great writer. His business book classic was a real page turner. He takes a page from the REWORK book and that's a good thing.
Who Moved My Cheese is a story about mice living in a maze happy and content that they have an unlimited supply of cheese. Then one day the cheese runs out.
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