I am an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My current interests are in software engineering for software systems with ML components (or teaching ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. They failed because they were imagined, not real. These ideas were based on aesthetics and subjective judgments.

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REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Auto-increment is a feature in databases that automatically generates a unique number for each new row added to a table. This number is usually used as a primary key to uniquely identify each row in ...

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