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April 2021

06-04-2021
Sharding your database Craig Kerstiens

Sharding your database Craig Kerstiens

Source: craigkerstiens.com

I’m increasingly encountering users on Heroku that are encountering the need to shard their data. For most users this is something you delay as long as possible as you can generally go for sometime before you have to worry about it. Additionally scaling up your database is often a reasonable approach early on and something I encourage as a starting point as scaling up is easy to do with regards to databases. However, for the 1% of users that do need to shard when the time comes many are left wondering where to start, hence the fo...

06-04-2021
Game programming for beginners

Game programming for beginners

Source: edu4java.com

In these series of tutorials I will explain new java concepts of an intermediate level (threads, AWT, Swing, etc.) and basic concepts for game programming (game loop, FPS, sprite, etc). These tutorials are useful both for those who want to program games, as for those who, with a basic or intermediate level in java, want to learn and improve java programming concepts in an entertaining way.