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...
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.
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."
