SAKO Architects’ Vibrant Buildings Will Take You to Colorful Paradise

Founded by visionary architect Keiichiro Sako, SAKO Architects grew into one of Asia’s most inventive architecture firms in the past two decades. They’re taking the world by storm with their colorful buildings, and here are three that have to be seen to be believed. Kaleidoscope – Tianshui SAKO Architects built several educational centers all around […]

Las Vegas’ Sphere is Redefining Architecture

Imagine stepping into an entertainment venue where the building itself is part of the show. This is no longer just a fantasy, thanks to The Sphere. This architectural masterpiece merges cutting-edge technology with groundbreaking design to create a fully immersive experience. Let’s take a closer look.  A New Era in Entertainment Architecture Traditionally, entertainment venues […]

Beautifully Designed Castles Around the World That Look Just Like Hogwarts

Hogwarts may not be a real place, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find beautifully designed buildings that look just as magical as this fictional school. Castles reminiscent of Harry Potter’s alma matter are scattered around the world, and these five will blow you away with their architectural beauty. Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany Neuschwanstein Castle […]

Audrey Smit is Transforming Mundane Buildings Into Floral Miracles

Audrey Smith enjoys seeing flowers everywhere around her, and she’ll help you see them too. The digital designer behind the viral project Paint the World is using the power of Photoshop to transform mundane buildings from all around the world into vibrant spectacles. On the official website of her brand This Little Street, Smith describes […]

MongoDB: 5 Syntactic Weirdnesses to Keep in Mind

People like to complain about MongoDB. For instance, maybe they feel that it ruined their social network, or any number of other less recent complaints. The debate gets so heated, though, that sometimes valid criticisms - and nothing is above criticism - are dismissed as bandwagon hatred. It's a problem that Slava Kim seems very aware of in this recent blog post on some of the syntactic weirdnesses of MongoDB. It's not bashing, Kim stresses. For developers to effectively use any technology, they need to understand the "sharp edges."

Kim goes into detail for each warning, covering five general areas:

MaxScale for the Rest of Us, Part 3: Install and Configure MaxScale

This third post in this series of blogs about MaxScale is finally getting where you want to go: Install and configure MaxScale. The first blog in this series was an overview of what MaxScale is and the second about how to set up a Cluster of MariaDB servers, using MariaDB Replication, for MaxScale to access. But now it's time to introduce MaxScale.

If you skipped the second post as you already know how to set up MariaDB with Replication and all that, be remineded that I will use the same Linux server setup as outlined there even for the MaxScale server and for a client to do some testing, and I recommend you stick with that for now (for MariaDB itself you can use any relevant setup you want, MaxSCale doesn't really care, but MaxScale is pretty new and has still not been tested on that many platforms, so try to stick to the CentOS 6.5 setup I propose.

Geek Reading Link List

I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.

Easily Find & Kill MongoDB Operations from MongoLab’s UI

A few months ago, we wrote a blog post on finding and terminating long-running operations in MongoDB. To help make it even easier for MongoLab users* to quickly identify the cause behind database unresponsiveness, we’ve integrated the currentOp() and killOp() methods into our management portal.

* currentOp and killOp functionality is not available on our free Sandbox databases because they run on multi-tenanted mongod processes.

The Difference Between TokuMX Partitioning and Sharding

In my last post, I described a new feature in TokuMX 1.5—partitioned collections—that’s aimed at making it easier and faster to work with time series data. Feedback from that post made me realize that some users may not immediately understand the differences between partitioning a collection and sharding a collection. In this post, I hope to clear that up.

On the surface, partitioning a collection and sharding a collection seem similar. Both actions take a collection and break it into smaller pieces for some performance benefit. Also, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably when discussing other technologies. But for TokuMX, the two features are very different in purpose and implementation. In describing each feature’s purpose and implementation, I hope to clarify the differences between the two features.

Baha’i Houses of Worship are True Marvels of Modern Architecture

Baháʼí Houses of Worship, best know for being open to people of all religions, are scattered all around the world, and there are a few things they all have in common. They’re true marvels of modern architecture, usually featuring nine-sided shapes with nine pathways and nine gardens surrounding them, and here are some of the […]