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January 8, 2019

PostgreSQL: The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale

Streaming replicas—and by extension, base backups—can become dangerously broken when the source and target machines run slightly different versions of glibc.

The history behind "grep"'s name

g/regex/p -> /g/re/p -> grep

Principal–agent problem

The principal–agent problem, in political science and economics, occurs when one person or entity (the "agent") is able to make decisions and/or take actions on behalf of, or that impact, another person or entity (the "principal")