November 2009
6 posts
Jonathan Safran Foer's „Eating Animals“ — The New... →
How is it that Americans, so solicitous of the animals they keep as pets, are so indifferent toward the ones they cook for dinner? The answer cannot lie in the beasts themselves. Pigs, after all, are quite companionable, and dogs are said to be delicious.
“I’m not for a moment suggesting we should all go money-less tomorrow....”
– Mark Boyle
“Up until now Digg has used a normal LAMP stack. Step one was to shard MySQL....”
– Eivind Uggedal summarizing Arin Sarkissian’s talk at NoSQL East 2009 - Summary of Day 1
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“In general, CouchDB provides relatively strong guarantees for data integrity....”
– Ryan Paul, „Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10“
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Simple CouchDB multi-master clustering via Nginx
I have been playing with CouchDB for the last couple of days a lot. And I like what I see even more. Couch seems to be extracted from the web so much, that it reminds me of my joy when discovering Rails couple of years ago.
One of those impossibly great things is that CouchDB is completely „raw HTTP“-based.
So, for instance, clustering is one of those things achieved so trivially it almost...
“Ordinarily I wouldn’t question others’ parenting choices. But the...”
– Stephanie Tatel, Slate, via @kottke