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So much good stuff this week... * Adrian Cockcroft Compares NoSQL Availability Models. Let's risk feeding the CAP trolls, and try to get some insight into the differences between the many NoSQL contenders. Adrian asks how each NoSQL product will add a movie to its favorites list, read it
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Facebook gave a MySQL Tech Talk where they talked about many things MySQL, but one of the more subtle and interesting points was their focus on controlling the variance of request response times and not just worrying about maximizing queries per second. But first the scalability porn. Facebook's
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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
Memcached is one of the most common In-Memory cache implementation. It was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal , but is now used by many other sites as a side cache to speed up read mostly operations. It gained popularity in the non-Java world, too, especially since it’s a
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This presentation and video by Jason Yan and David Cramer discusses how they scaled DISQUS, a comments as a service service for easily adding comments to your site and connecting communities. The presentation is very good, so here are just a few highlights: * Traffic: 17,000 requests/second peak; 450,
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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
With all the attention being paid these days to VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and application virtualization and server virtualization and <insert type> virtualization it’s easy to forget about network-based application virtualization. But it’s the one virtualization technique you shouldn’t forget because it is a foundational