Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 2:59PM Jeremy Raines tweeted a link to this cartoon my new filing technique is unstoppable, showing how scotch tape can be used to create a new super-database. Very funny in a Dilbert sort of way, but definitely not NSFW...
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:49AM This is a hilarious presentation by Josh Berkus, called Scale Fail, given at O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011. Josh is entertaining, well spoken, and cleverly hides insight inside chaos. And he makes some dang good points along the way.
Josh has a problem, you see Josh has learned how to make sites that are both scalable and reliable. So he's puzzled why companies "whose downtime interfaces (Twitter) are more well known than their uptime interfaces" get all the attention, respect, and money for being failures. Just doing your job doesn't make you a hero. You need these self-inflicted wounds in-order to have the war stories to share at conferences. They get the attention. Just doing your job is boring. This is so unfair in that way life can be.
So if you want to turn the tables and take the low road to fame and fortune, here's Josh's program for learning how not to scale:
Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 9:47AM This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it's hilarious, but it's also not a bad overview of the issues. Especially loved: You read the latest post on HighScalability.com and think you are a f*cking Google and architect and parrot slogans like Web Scale and Sharding but you have no idea what the f*ck you are talking about. There are so many more gems like that.
Thanks to Alex Popescu for posting this on MongoDB is Web Scale. Whoever made this deserves a Webby.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:02PM Brian Aker gave this 10 minute lightning talk on NoSQL at the Nov 2009 OpenSQLCamp in Portland, Oregon. It's incredibly funny, probably because there's a lot of truth to what he's saying.
Here are the slides and here are the notes. Found though #nosql.
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:58AM Another fun one... Should I be Worried About Scaling?
What happens when the comfortable SQL world of yesterday changes out from under you? You feel like this (it uses some language picante so be advised):
Here's a link to the source: http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png
A great way to communicate the dislocation one feels when technology changes. It also gets you to wonder if those changes at the user level are completely necessary for carrying out the task?
Lest you think this just an old guard reactionary sentiment, Boxed Ice chose MongoDB over CouchDB partly because "CouchDB requires map/reduce style queries which is much more complicated to work with."
