HaVeDa – A Backend Development Blog
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Since MySQL 5.5, the world can enjoy the amazing world of non latin characters. Time to party! …Or is it? One may think that just by setting the charset and collation of the database, he is covered. That may sometimes be right, but not always. Let’s review the steps for resilient character persisting: Step one: Set…
So far I had a positive experience using MySQL for holding results of aggregations. Firstly, it provides flexible and efficient indexing on the dimension columns. For me, it was a great improvement over Cassandra’s in-built counter tables (we were using v2.0.7), which do not offer much flexibility on querying dimensions independently due to its key based partitioning . Secondly, MySQL provides…
In our test suite we are using an Embedded h2 (1.4.190) database in MYSQL mode. Quite franky for this kind of use I didn’t really care how performant this database is, so the decision to use h2 was pretty random. In the begining I have not noticed any syntax issues and was quite content with…
I love working with Spring Boot. I am working with it for about six months now, and yet it never ceases to amaze me with the amount of features bundled with it. However, sometimes it tries to a good thing, but misses eventually. Let’s take the Flyway support for example. Flyway is used for easily…