The Metaverse is the new Matrix

Few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, and the CEO of Facebook, announced a rebrand of the company. The parent-company would be called Meta, which would run Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram among others. Mark said the company is ready to build the Metaverse and the rebranding was done in line with this goal. What is …

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Dissertation Proposal [The Definitive Guide]

On obtaining an academic degree, a student has to write a dissertation proposal which is an extensive and complex piece of research. Here we will provide you a comprehensive guide to start, research and complete it on time.

Updating to Java 1.6

As of changeset 7cadcb the HEAD release of HiveDB requires Java6 (1.6). We were trying to maintain compatibility with both Java5 and Java6 but were unable to do so due to changes in the DataSource interface. We have changed our default connection pooling implementation from DBCP to C3P0. C3P0 has better failure characteristics and we …

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Switching from SVN to Git

We are switching our version control repository from Subversion to Git. Initially I read Why Distributed Version Control Matter to You, Today and shrugged my shoulders and said, “Maybe so, but subversion works fine.” However we recently ran into a situation where we needed more robust branching and merging features than Subversion had to offer, …

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Come see us at MySQL Conf

Massively scalable systems used to be the sole province of large corporations with acronyms for names and budgets the size of a small country’s GDP, but with the explosion of user-created content sites scaling is now everybody’s problem. One of the main strategies for scaling databases is to partition the data across many servers. This …

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