This port is the first in a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it. In future posts, we will dig more into the specifics of benchmarks and design choices. The Penrose stairs of performance If you are following database innovation you can see that nearly every database vendor out […]
The security debacle. As a database user or administrator, you may have learnt that MongoDB recently took a very serious hit. A hit of over 28,000 hacked installs.
At first an interrogation – At the beginning, there was a question. Why are we waiting for machines to give us an answer? Why aren’t we able to analyze everything in real time?
Since C++ 11 it’s possible to use braces for construction and initialization. Although this is something you could ignore for the code you write, it’s obviously important to know for the code you may read.
In a previous post, we had a look at the new constexpr keyword that has been introduced in C++ 11. Today we’ll study another new fancy specifier: noexcept.
C++ 11 and C++ 14 came with a lot of new features. People tend to focus on lambdas and rvalue references, but today I’d like to talk about constexpr.
