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markhopson Ask HN: Architecture Diagrams for GitHub Readme.md?

Monodraw is nice, but I wish it was web based

Whimiscal looks really cool. I really wish it would provide a shareable link to my rendered diagram (jpg or png) that I could embed in my Github readme.

markhopson Ask HN: Architecture Diagrams for GitHub Readme.md?

Not a fan of how they need your Google drive to host your diagrams.

markhopson Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL

Ah, did he mean "SERIAL" as in "BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE" ... and the reason why this locks a table is because the database, on insert, needs to figure out a valid key?

markhopson Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL

Stupid question here: what are serial keys, and how do they impose locks?