February 2026 Archives

Coding Agents using Anthropic and z.ai - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026

My presentation will look at coding agents from Anthropic and z.ai with the following questions:

How (well) can coding agents support Perl code?

What differences are there between the models?

How can I get agents to write good code?

Hope to see you there:

https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/

Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026

We're happy to have Abigail present at the German Perl Workshop 2026!

Sharding a database, twice richtet sich an Alle und wird in English gehalten.

There comes a time in the life time of a database, the database takes too many resources (be it disk space, number of I/O transactions, or something else) to be handled by a single box.

Sharding, where data is distributed over several identically shaped databases is one technique to solve this.

For a high volume database I used to work with, we hit this limit about a dozen…

About Max Maischein

user-pic I'm the Treasurer for the Frankfurt Perlmongers e.V. . I have organized Perl events including 9 German Perl Workshops and one YAPC::Europe.