In Scalability issues for dummies Alex Barrera talks movingly about the challenges he faces trying to scale his startup inkzee as the lone developer. Inkzee is an online news reader that automatically groups similar topics. This is a cool problem and is one you know right away is going to
databases
This article not about Mariah Carey, or its song. It's about Storing System, Database. First let's describe what means by odds: In my social network, I found 93% of the mainstream developers sanctify the database, or at least consider it in any data persistence challenge as
traffic
Update 17: Are Wireless Road Trains the Cure for Traffic Congestion? BY ADDY DUGDALE. The concept of road trains--up to eight vehicles zooming down the road together--has long been considered a faster, safer, and greener way of traveling long distances by car Update 16: The first electric vehicle in the
LAMP
In this article we follow a hypothetical programmer, Damian, on his quest to make his web application scalable. Read the full article on Bytepawn
General Discussion
The Key/Value Store becames more and more popular. When we use the Key/Value Store to store objects, we need to serialize/deserialize the objects as binary buffer. We have many ways to serialize/deserialize objects. A possible way is to use the Relational Database. Every value we store
Caching
In this post i wrote my view on the anti SQL database movement and where the alternative approach fits in: - SQL databases are not going away anytime soon. - The current "one size fit it all" databases thinking was and is wrong. - There is definitely a
server architecture
There are a lot of questions about how the server components, and how to build perfect server with consider the power consumption. Today I will discuss the Server components, and how we can choice better server components with consider the power consumption, efficacy, performance, and price. Key points: * What kind
Parallelism
This presentation about parallel computing, and it’s discover the following topic: * What is parallelism? * Why now? * How it’s works? * What is the current options * Parallel Runtime Library. (for more information go there) Note: All of my presentation is open source, so feel free to copy it, use it,
It's hard to be a relational database lately. After years of faithful service everywhere you look the world is turning against you: Recently at the NoSQL conference 150 revolutionaries met with their new anti-RDBMS arms suppliers. And you know what happens when revolutionaries are motivated, educated, funded, and
Product
Update 3: Presentation from the NoSQL Conference: slides, video. Update 2: Jim Wilson helps with the Understanding HBase and BigTable by explaining them from a "conceptual standpoint." Update: InfoQ interview: HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases. "MapReduce (both Google's and Hadoop's)
Product
Update 3: Presentation from the NoSQL conference: slides, video 1, video 2. Update 2: The folks at Hypertable would like you to know that Hypertable is now officially sponsored by Baidu, China’s Leading Search Engine. As a sponsor of Hypertable, Baidu has committed an industrious team of engineers, numerous
Database
Update 2: Presentation from the NoSQL conference: slides, video. Update: Why you won't be building your killer app on a distributed hash table by Jonathan Ellis. Why I think Cassandra is the most promising of the open-source distributed databases --you get a relatively rich data model and a