Paper
In A Brief History of the Internet it was revealed that the Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design. The Internet as we now know it embodies a key underlying technical idea, namely that of open architecture networking. In this
hot links
1. Why NoSQL Will Not Die. Stephan Schmidt explains why you may wait a long time for NoSQL to go to that great bit bucket in the sky. 2. DBMS Musings: Distinguishing Two Major Types of Column-Stores by Daniel Abadi. I have noticed that Bigtable, HBase, Hypertable, and Cassandra are
graph
On the surface nothing appears more different than soft data and hard raw materials like iron. Then isn’t it ironic, in the Alanis Morissette sense, that in this Age of Information, great wealth still lies hidden deep beneath piles of stuff? It's so strange how directly digging
Example
In the article The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us, a lot of interesting points are made about their ambitious infrastructure move from Drupal/PHP to Django/Python: the move wasn't that hard, it just took time and work because of their previous experience moving
Strategy
O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg, in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL. As Digg started out with a MySQL
Product
This is a part interview part guest with Sebastian Stadil, founder of Scalr, a cheaper open-source version of RightScale. Scalr takes care of all the web site infrastructure bits to on Amazon (and other clouds) so you don’t have to. I first met Sebastian at one of the original
hot links
1. The Changelog Episode 0.1.8 - NoSQL Smackdown! This podcast was recorded at SXSW and features some energetic trash talking by: Stu Hood from Cassandra, Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB, Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB, Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon. It's fun hearing these
Example
Cosmin Lehene wrote two excellent articles on Adobe's experiences with HBase: Why we’re using HBase: Part 1 and Why we’re using HBase: Part 2. Adobe needed a generic, real-time, structured data storage and processing system that could handle any data volume, with access times under 50ms,
Example
The future is live. The future is real-time. The future is now. That's the hype anyway. And as it has a habit of doing, the hype is slowly becoming reality. We are seeing live searches, live tweets, live location, live reality augmentation, live crab (fresh and local), and
It looks like I'll have the chance to interview someone tomorrow from Justin.tv about their architecture, which is pretty exciting given their leadership role in live broadcasting. They get 30 million uniques a month, can handle 1 million simultaneous broadcasts and hope to grow another magnitude in
cassandra
The last six months have been exciting for Digg's engineering team. We're working on a soup-to-nuts rewrite. Not only are we rewriting all our application code, but we're also rolling out a new client and server architecture. And if that doesn't sound
Example
Several readers had follow-up questions in response to How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month. Here are Luke's response to those questions (and a few of mine). How does social networking makes things easier or harder? The primary interesting aspect of social networking games is