May 2011
9 posts
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“The last person who touched the code is the go-to person for that program”...”
– Eric Allman, author of sendmail, in architecture of sendmail
Architecture of Open Source Applications: NoSQL... →
Nice overview of the architectures of SQL, key-value stores, key-data structure stores, key-document stores, graph databases, etc.
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Redis under the hood →
A tour of Redis’ internals.
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A not very short introduction to Node.js →
Really good.
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Redis: the AK-47 of post-relational databases
“All daily deals are simply price promotions — and often steep ones at...”
– Rice University professor Utpal Dholakia, summarizing the results of his research.
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The killing of Osama bin Laden →
The one article to read about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Facts from The New York Times. Saving this one for history’s sake.