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Two forces account for the trend of moving behavior to data: larger values used in key-value stores and spotty cloud networks. For some time we've seen functions pushed close to data with MapReduce, which is a batch process, but we are now seeing this model extend to interactive
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Update: Benjamin Black said he was the source of the quote and also said I was wrong about what he meant. His real point: The meaning of the statement was that NoSQL systems (really the various map-reduce systems) are lacking a standard model for describing and querying and that developing
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I along with 180 other people and veritable who's who of NoSQL vendors, attended the A NoSQL Evening in Palo Alto NoSQL Meetup on Tuesday. The format was a panel of 10 vendors--10gen, Basho, CouchOne, Cloudant, Cloudera, GoGrid, InfiniteGraph, Membase, Riptano, Scality--sitting in two rows of chairs in
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Who's Hiring? * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". * Tuenti is hiring both a FrontEnd and BackEnd Engineer. * Playfish is hiring an Engineering Director, Marketing & CRM and a Sr. Systems Operation Engineer. * Electronic
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Who's Hiring? * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". * Tuenti is hiring both a FrontEnd and BackEnd Engineer. * Playfish is hiring an Engineering Director, Marketing & CRM and a Sr. Systems Operation Engineer. * Electronic
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On a cold and rainy Fall day, a day stolen from winter rather than our usual gorgeous Indian Summers, a day not even the SF Giants winning the pennant can help warm, here are some hot links to read by a digital flame: * Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A
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In an audacious move for such an established property, Netflix is moving their website out of the comfort of their own datacenter and into the wilds of the Amazon cloud. This paper by Netflix's Siddharth “Sid” Anand, Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems, gives a detailed look
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Write a little "Hello World" program these days and it runs inside a bewildering Russian Doll of nested environments, each layer adding its own special performance and complexity tax. First, a language executes in its own environment of data structure libraries, memory management, and so on. That, more
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Who's Hiring? * Playfish is hiring an Engineering Director, Marketing & CRM and a Sr. Systems Operation Engineer. * Electronic Arts Mobile is looking for Server Engineers. * Tagged is hiring Engineers, Product Managers, Game Designers, and more. * Undertone is looking for a Software Engineer and a QA Engineer. * Box.net
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For everything given something seems to be taken. Caching is a great scalability solution, but caching also comes with problems. Sharding is a great scalability solution, but as Foursquare recently revealed in a post-mortem about their 17 hours of downtime, sharding also has problems. MongoDB, the database Foursquare uses, also
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Robert Haas in his SURGE Recap of the Surge conference, reflected a bit, and came up with an interesting checklist of general themes from what he was seeing. I'm directly quoting his post, so please see the post for a full discussion. He uses this framework to think
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* So what happened at the Surge 2010 Conference? A lot... * Cosimo Streppone with a nicely detailed day by day summary. * Conference organizer Theo Schlossnagle says: Surge. Year one. Done. Awesome. * Robert Haas with SURGE Recap * From SEOmoz we have their SurgeCon Review – our thoughts on a fabulous web scalability conference