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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Redis is single-threaded. Also, not everyone uses stateful app servers.
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Why is it more efficient to store everything in individual k-v pairs? Hash tables are certainly more memory efficient, and the difference in CPU efficiency is so slight as to be inconsequential.
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Hmm. The author's recommendation to use Redis' 'KEYS' command to pattern match keys for invalidation is a dangerous one. 'KEYS' runs in O(n) time. If you're using Redis in a serious production environment, you do not want want to be using a
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Also, your client doesn't support pipelining, which is a nice feature for any Redis client.
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Sorry, but why not just use phpredis? We heavily use Redis + PHP, and phpredis already seems to be a fairly minimalist interpretation, in the sense that it doesn't attempt to implement commands that Redis doesn't support. It's also written
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Your startup failed because teachers hate technology? Your startup failed because you couldn't make teachers love the technology you were providing. Or you didn't go to the right people. Maybe you should've gone straight to the schools.
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
Very dodgy methodology...
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
We're working on integrating Redis into our stack, but we use it mostly as a caching layer. As with any NoSQL datastore, your data will have to be structured far differently than if you were using a relational database. The nice thing abou
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
a) Apple is rumoured to be working on a low-cost iPhone for developing markets. Greenspun provides absolutely no evidence to support his claim that Apple cannot, except to say that emerging markets are becoming more important. If we use Chi
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
This article is so astoundingly empty of any real logic that I am truly shocked that it's currently on the front page. He claims that Apple's rise was fuelled by early adopters who forked over large sums of cash for the privilege of being a
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by tabbyjabby 15y ago
It's really unattractive. Your text boxes look like buttons, probably due to the dropping of a hard border, the centred label, and the use of the unconventional yellow colour. This is a situation that's only made worse by the fact that the