Storing passwords into a database
Don'ts Don'ts Don't put raw passwords in the database Don't put encoded passwords in the database (i.e. Base64) Don't put simple hashed passwords in the »
Snowflake
Introduction Twitter's Snowflake is a ID generation scheme that tackles all of the requirements below: ID fits under 64 bits ID will be used with distribution »
Sharding Techniques
Introduction Sharding can be summarized as a technique in which a database table can be split into multiple database servers to optimize read/write performance. Benefits »
RDBMS Optimization
Indexing Probably the easiest tweak to implement. It can usually be done with one SQL command. However, an index should be made based on a good »