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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this day of wind and rain...

  • The cloud is falling. Or at least shared networked storage as Reddit has a couple of long periods of downtime. Good write up at Why reddit was down for 6 of the last 24 hours. Upshot: Reddit is moving off EBS to local disks.
  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @thomleggett: 32 or so joins - the sweet-spot of suck for MySQL - @emileifrem #nosql #neo4j #qconlondon
    • @jkalucki: The [Twitter] Streaming API pushes 100MB in less than a second.
    • @LusciousPear: Finding the true test of a DB is recovery when things go wrong, not "who's most web-scale" on paper #nosql
    • @TimelessP: Functionality, scalability, security... pick two.
    • @beaknit: #ccevent #nosql @adrianco: A year from oracle to simpledb. A week from simpledb to cassandra. Mental shift biggest hurdle.
    For more stuff the Internet says please read on...


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