The Weekly Squeak - Scaling MySQL with Planet Scale

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When the news broke that Mozilla was launching a new round of layoffs — its second in 2020 so far — reaction was swift. Developers noticed that Mozilla’s cuts ran straight through the corporate fat to the meat of the company.

On September 7, Melissa Cameron stepped out of her south London home and into a pre-booked black cab. It was her first day back at the office since late March when her employer, private equity firm Advent International, asked everyone to work from home.

Of the three major Linux companies, Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE, two have separate community Linux distros: Red Hat with Fedora, and SUSE with openSUSE.

If Jay Kreps were to start his $4.5 billion-valued tech company Confluent over again, he’d take a shortcut, he says: rather than spend five years building the open source software underpinning Confluent’s success, he’d just buy it instead.

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