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  • Quotable Quotes
    • @hofmanndavid: Performance and scalability anxiety makes developers want to catch the flying butterflies
    • @tivrfoa: "Scalability solutions aren't magic. They involve partitioning, indexing and replication." Twitter engineer
    • Alan Perlis: Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it.
  • CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage. Interesting tale of a cascading collapse in complex, distributed, interactive systems. For more background see the highly illuminating Explaining Supernodes by Dan York.
  • RethinkDB and SSD Databases. SSD was not a revolution by Kevin Burton. What’s really shocking to me, is that while SSD and flash storage is very exciting, it wasn’t as revolutionary in 2010 as I would have liked to have seen.
  • The case for Datastore-Side-Scripting. Russell Sullivan predicts real-time web applications are going in the direction of being entirely event driven, from client (WebSockets) to web-server (Node.js) to datastore (Redisql). And to complete the even driven chain is datastore-side-scripting.
  • Developments that could change everything...


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