Open Source Apia: our API framework The main things we want from an our APIs are for them to be self documenting, easy to develop and easy for consumers to use. There are a variety of tools out there but none of them really satisified all our goals. So, we did what we often do, we
Open Source Postal 2.0 We handle millions of e-mails every month here at Krystal and one of the tools that helps us do that is Postal - our very own open source e-mail delivery platform. Over the last couple of years, development on Postal had been rather stagnant as we have been focusing on
Tutorials Optimizing your MySQL server When building a scalable web application, the first performance problem most people will encounter is with their database queries. As your database grows, it is very likely that things will slow down as the database server has to look through more and more data to find what you need. The
Tutorials MySQL Replication for Redundancy In this post we will discuss how we configure MariaDB multi-source replication in order to achieve database redundancy.
Databases MySQL Indexes Explained In the time we've been assisting people with hosting their web applications, the most common reason we've seen for performance problems has been missing or incorrectly used database indexes, so we hope this simple introduction can help people get much more out of their databases. What are Indexes?Every time