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Update: A fun exploration of applied searching in How to search for the word "pen1s" in 185 emails every second. When indexOf doesn't cut it you just trie harder. Has a drunken friend ever inspired you to create a first of its kind internet service that
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What is the future of EJB3 in the industry , given the current trends ? There are a lot of arguments regarding EJB3 being heavy weighted ..... Also, what could be the alternatives of EJB3 ? How about the scalability, persistence, performance and other factors ?
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The new version of a8cjdbc finished some limitations. Now Clobs and Blobs are supported, and some fixes using binary data. The version was also fully tested with Postgres and mySQL. Since Version 1.3 there is also a free trail version for download available. Check it out and test yourself.
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The new version of a8cjdbc finished some limitations. Now Clobs and Blobs are supported, and some fixes using binary data. The version was also fully tested with Postgres and mySQL. Since Version 1.3 there is also a free trail version for download available. Check it out and test yourself.
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Ever feel like the blogosphere is 500 million channels with nothing on? Tailrank finds the internet's hottest channels by indexing over 24M weblogs and feeds per hour. That's 52TB of raw blog content (no, not sewage) a month and requires continuously processing 160Mbits of IO. How
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Update: Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served. That's a lot of hamburgers. Flickr is both my favorite bird and the web's leading photo sharing site. Flickr has an amazing challenge, they must handle a vast sea of ever expanding new content, ever increasing legions of users,
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Practically any software project nowadays could not survive without a database (DBMS) backend storing all the business data that is vital to you and/or your customers. When projects grow larger, the amount of data usually grows larger exponentially. So you start moving the DBMS to a separate server to
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Hi, An interesting post on Linkedin architecture: http://furiouspurpose.blogspot.com/2007/11/qcon-linkedin-architecture.html
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Hi, I would like feed back on a ID generator I just made. What positive and negative effects do you see with this. It's programmed in Java, but could just as easily be programmed in any other typical language. It's thread safe and does not use
Java
Update 2: Read/WriteWeb has a good article talking about the scalability issues of relational databases and how Dynamo solves them: Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage. But since Dynamo is just another frustrating walled garden protected by barbed wire and guard dogs, its relevance is somewhat
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There is a lot of information in the blogosphere describing the architecture of many popular sites, such as Google, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, TypePad, WikiPedia and others. I've summarized this issue in a blog post here I would really appreciate your opinion on this matter.
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Fotolog, a social blogging site centered around photos, grew from about 300 thousand users in 2004 to over 11 million users in 2007. Though they initially experienced the inevitable pains of rapid growth, they overcame their problems and now manage over 300 million photos and 800,000 new photos are