September 2014 Summaries

Today SingleStore is excited to announce an investment from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. SingleStore is used by enterprise companies such as Comcast, Shutterstock, and Zynga, and IQT’s recent investment will allow us to generate market opportunities within the government space. The investment from IQT further validates SingleStore’s leadership in the distributed in-memory database market, and we are pleased to be able to work with IQT to help bring deep insights to the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Watch the presentation below to learn about Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) and SingleStore's key innovations that enable us to deliver on being a powerful, in-memory, HTAP-driven database.` `The presentation was given as part of the "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" seminar series at Carnegie Mellon University, which features leading developers of NoSQL and NewSQL database management systems.` `The speaker aimed to showcase new technologies available for front-end application developers through this presentation.

The text discusses writing exception-safe C++ code, specifically focusing on a concept called "Auto" objects that can automatically call certain functions when they go out of scope. The author highlights the importance of using exceptions to handle errors in C++ and introduces the idea of an "Auto" object as a solution to ensure exception safety. The text also explores potential issues with implementing such an "Auto" class, including name conflicts and memory allocation, before proposing a solution that addresses these concerns.

In a recent CoreOS meetup, I presented the design and implementation of Psyduck, SingleStore's test infrastructure, which runs over 60,000 tests daily on a 107 machine cluster running CoreOS. The system utilizes a unique architecture to efficiently manage and execute these tests, enabling fast feedback loops for developers and improving overall software quality.