Speeding Up Crate By Doing Nothing

Since I started working at Crate.IO I have, of course, had to spend some time getting to learn the technology. For me, overall Crate story is very compelling: distributed SQL at NoSQL-scale. How the technology clusters and distributes load is also very cool. In order to learn a little about the technology for myself I have been working on a specific "game"... What can I tweak in order to maximise the input rate? Here's what I found out so far...

Two Years Of KDEPIM: 2014, 2015

It's been a while since I delved into KDE. With me no longer working at KDAB, my contributions are really restricted to helping out in KDE e.V. and, even then, normally only when someone specifically ask for me. KDE, of course, continues to be a community I care about very much. I wanted to do a very basic health check of my old stomping ground: KDEPIM.