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/
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…