1 month ago
Andy Baio : It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future - selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides [via]
Rod Begbie : It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future - Slides from a vintage IBM sales presentation. I might do a presentation some time that *only* uses these for illustration. [via] #
nelson : IBM Slides 1975 - Beautiful graphic design
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5 month ago
joshua : A Brief Tour of Graphd - on freebase's database tech
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nelson : mysqlsniffer - like tcpdump/wireshark, but for mysql. Not sure why this isn't just a Wireshark filter...
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Sun Acquires MySQL - Until now, no platform vendor has assembled all the core elements of a completely open source operating system for the internet. No company has been able to deliver a comprehensive alternative to the leading proprietary OS. With this acquisition, we will
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8 month ago
Simon Willison : Sun To Acquire MySQL - Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL.
nelson : MySQL AB: $1 billion - Amazing purchase price, but would you want to be bought by Sun?
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9 month ago
Simon Willison : Eventually Consistent - Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB.
jcgregorio : Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed
joshua : Werner Vogels on Eventually Consistency - design considerations for distributed databases
nelson : Eventually Consistent - Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices
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9 month ago
nelson : Eventual consistency - Simpledb's writes take several seconds to commit. That seems crippling to me.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Economics that are impossible to stop - Even so, the model is compelling. When you can build large, distributed systems and avoid pouring precious dollars into fixed capital assets, startups can do things that just weren’t possible before.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Amazon SimpleDB 101 - This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.
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9 month ago
nelson : Amazon SimpleDB - I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
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11 month ago
nelson : Library of Congress data - Freeing public records
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12 month ago
nelson : MySQL replication practice - Great blog entry about reliable snapshots, repliation delay, etc
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joshua : stonebraker's latest on re-architecting databases - presumably about vertica
jcgregorio : The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) - "This paper builds on [SBC+07] by presenting evidence that the current architecture of RDBMSs is not even appropriate for business data processing."
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13 month ago
joshua : MySQL Proxy - MySQLForge Wiki
Jeremy Zawodny : MySQL Proxy - MySQL Proxy: "MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses."
nelson : MySQL Proxy - About time, should be quite handy
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13 month ago
nelson : Riyadh solar time - Python timezone database gave up trying to cope with a weird time zone definition tried in Saudi Arabia for three years
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13 month ago
nelson : Scene NFO DB dump? - Rumour has it there's a database of 2.6 million warez scene releases
Andy Baio : Massive warez NFO database released publicly - MySQL dump covering 2.6 million releases back to the '80s; mixed quality, but could be fun for data mining [via]
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14 month ago
nelson : Rails vs MySQL - Amazingly detailed technical article about how Ruby on Rails design choices can interact badly with MySQL's limitations
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nelson : Flickr capacity talk - Lots of details about how a big webapp cluster works
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.. I normally avoid linking to “top 10” lists on principle, but this one pulls together some great resources and adds some extra context to each one.
jcgregorio : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - Doesn't cover Google or eBay, but still a good list.
jimray : The top 10 presentations on how to scale websites - Flickr, Bloglines, Vox, etc - learn how to build strong sites
bmilleare : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
nelson : System scaling - Collection of videos on how they make systems scale
joshua : A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
philgyford : Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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17 month ago
nelson : Perfect DB storage - SmugMug's idea on what makes a great RAID array for MySQL
bmilleare : The Perfect DB Storage Array
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18 month ago
jcgregorio : MF Bliki: Transactionless - """But eBay's example suggests that living without transactions is far less impossible than many people think."""
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20 month ago
wearehugh : joshua's blog: lessons learned: autoincrement considered harmful
deusx : joshua's blog: lessons learned: autoincrement considered harmful - "at some point some jerk will get the idea to write a shell script with a for-loop and try to fetch every single object from your system; this is definitely no fun."
nelson : autoincrement considered harmful - interesting set of reasons not to use automatic sequential IDs
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jcgregorio : The eBay Architecture - I love it on page 28 where they create their own BigTable.
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25 month ago
wearehugh : Turning MySQL data in latin1 to utf8 utf-8 - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
Paul Hammond : Turning MySQL data in latin1 to utf8 utf-8 - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - LESSON LEARNED: KEEP EVERYTHING IN UTF-8, ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE, FROM DAY ONE
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