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by rbranson 15y ago
Can you give a concrete example where MongoDB blew an RDBMS out of the water in regards to prototyping? I find that database schemas don't really get in the way until a project matures, and then it becomes a road block both in a legacy mann
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by rbranson 15y ago
This harsh cliff does NOT occur on every database. The old guard RDBMSs have extremely sophisticated and well-tuned I/O code that has been working around slow disks for decades. While you can't escape the physics of rotational drives, Mongo
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by rbranson 15y ago
Arguably, with a data set of any serious magnitude, there's no such thing as ad-hoc. As soon as an RDBMS is sharded, it loses most of it's ad-hoc powers. That being said, Riak Search allows Riak to perform ad-hoc queries and Cassandra now s
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Scaling with MongoDB (or how Urban Airship abandoned it for PostgreSQL)(schmichael.com)
180 points by rbranson 15y ago|101 comments
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by rbranson 15y ago
Node.js is neat, and I have contributed some things to the community, but it has a long way to go honestly if it's to be taken seriously in the performance and infrastructure realm. Articles like this don't help it's image either. It's as i
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by rbranson 15y ago
All of the native extensions that would break would notice.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Not multi-touch, but HTC had been making large, touch screen devices based on Windows Mobile for a while before the iPhone was announced. http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3600-1694.php Clearly not taken to the degree Apple did, but what Apple
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'd argue that the only true innovation Apple made with the iPhone was with the App Store, which didn't even happen until a bit after the launch. Apple gathered what they thought were best technologies, honed them, and made them work togeth
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by rbranson 15y ago
Linux distributions? Usually not important until you're building your own packages or needing to heavily customize.
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by rbranson 15y ago
The choice of nginx vs Apache over MySQL vs PostgreSQL is not an equal comparison at all. Until the application hits very high hit rates, the web server choice is mostly inconsequential. RDBMS choice will have real impact on the developers
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by rbranson 15y ago
^^^ pretty much. Full featured applications are and have been being built with what is basically 10 year old web technology. Simultaneously, users are coming to the realization that full featured isn't what they need. Thanks to the drastica
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Azkaban for Workflow(americanroamer.com)
1 points by rbranson 15y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 15y ago
There seems to be an attitude problem in the Ruby community,. Lots of prima donnas who don't want to work together or work with those outside their clique. It is self-perpetuating as well. I'm sure part of the reason some projects isolate t
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by rbranson 15y ago
cough mongodbiswebscale cough but seriously, some of the commercial vendors in the space are having a difficult time admitting their faults. I feel as if the best way to warm up to engineers is to announce your limitations first. Any engi
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by rbranson 15y ago
If they feel as if they can only launch APIs that have indefinite lifetimes, this will seriously hamper their ability to justify building new public APIs. Deprecation is a risk taken anytime software is built on an API, for-profit or not. T
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by rbranson 15y ago
... and so many spoiled white kids.
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by rbranson 15y ago
RabbitMQ itself doesn't have HA built-in, but warm spare HA is rather simple and well-documented, built on-top of Pacemaker and DRBD. It works quite well.
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by rbranson 15y ago
"Crashed"... I'm glad they're using such specific terms. I give them a lot of slack because they run that shop with a skeleton crew, but they sure do run into a lot of issues with perfectly good software, have Twitter levels of performance
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by rbranson 15y ago
How is he not a worthwhile advisor? He represents a significant part of the sector.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I was about to ditch my Incredible with it's hilariously bad battery life until I rooted it. I can probably get 2 days out of it now. My Nexus One had great battery life. It's the software. Not saying it's an excuse (they put the OS on ther
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by rbranson 15y ago
More reasons HTC is my favorite phone manufacturer right now. After a bike accident left my Nexus One screen broken, $100 and a 4-day turnaround got me back on my feet. Thrilled. Maybe they'll drop the Sense UI from the stock phones. One ca
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by rbranson 15y ago
It's absolutely incredible that it can take so much effort just to make it run. ActiveMQ seems shiny and interesting on the outside, but the prolific number of war stories took it off my list. In brilliant contrast, RabbitMQ is it-just-work
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by rbranson 15y ago
ZeroMQ = wire protocol and library for messaging, ActiveMQ = a message broker.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Actually Erlang/OTP provides exactly the type of abstraction layer that's extremely useful for RabbitMQ's use case. It's specifically designed for consistent latency, predictable memory usage, and resilience under failure conditions. You kn
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by rbranson 15y ago
I think that was exactly the problem with SproutCore -- it was essentially inseparable from it's UI toolkit.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Very interesting. It doesn't surprise me that a vast array of permits would be required, as it should be. We all know how companies will treat water resources if they're not scrutinized. I do see water cooling as a potential mitigation of l
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by rbranson 15y ago
You're right, the risk is fairly mild, but it's still far more risky than what's seen in the Chicago area. It only takes 1 tornado to effectively wipe out a datacenter.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Bingo. Banks aren't ACID at all. In actuality, the datastore of record for internal bank transactions usually looks more like a continuous transaction journal with two account numbers and an amount. The snapshot balance of any account isn't
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by rbranson 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the claims made by people that banks require ACID are rooted in any kind of experience or fact.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Either way, there is a ton of land in many states along the great lakes. It seems like HVAC is a large component of energy expenditures at datacenters, but perhaps the savings don't justify it?

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