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* The Cost of Latency by James Hamilton. James summarizes latency info from Steve Souder, Greg Linden, and Marissa Mayer. Speed [is] an undervalued and under-discussed asset on the web. * Dynamo - Part I: a followup and re-rebuttals. Dynamo under attack as having Design flaws and the resounding rebuttal in response.
* Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion by Pat Helland. In particular, we focus on the implications that fall out of assuming we cannot have large-scale distributed transactions. * Tragedy of the Commons, and Cold Starts - Cold application starts on Google App Engine kill your application's responsiveness.
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Update: Social networks in the database: using a graph database. Anders Nawroth puts graphs through their paces by representing, traversing, and performing other common social network operations using a graph database. Update: Deployment with Capistrano by Charles Max Wood. Simple step-by-step for using Capistrano for deployment. Log-structured file systems: There&
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Save 25% on Hadoop Conference Tickets Apache Hadoop is a hot technology getting traction all over the enterprise and in the Web 2.0 world. Now, there's going to be a conference dedicated to learning more about Hadoop. It'll be Friday, October 2 at the Roosevelt
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A tour through hybrid column/row-oriented DBMS schemes by DANIEL ABADI. Approaches: PAX, Fractured Mirrors, and Fine-grained hybrids. The Future of Database Clustering by ROBERT HODGES. Simple management and monitoring, Fast, flexible replication, Top-to-bottom data protection, Partition management, Cloud and virtualized operation, Transparent application access, Open source. Some perspective to
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I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Shut up about scalability, no one is using your app anyway. Multi-Tenant Data Architecture - Microsoft's take on different approaches to multitenancy. Cloud computing rides on spiraling Energy costs - A report by US researchers has