We tend to think of working hard as a good thing. We value a strong work ethic and determination is the face of adversity. But if you are working harder than you should to get the same results, then it's not a virtue, it's a waste of time and energy. If it's your business systems that are working harder than they should, it's a waste of your IT budget.
Dynamo based systems work too hard. SimpleDB/DynamoDB, Riak, Cassandra and Voldemort are all based, at least in part, …
- High Scalability: The State of NoSQL in 2012
- ZURB: Start Here, Build Everywhere: Announcing Foundation
- paperplanes: A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB
- New Relic: Why I Love Working at New Relic: Chris Kelly, Developer/Evangelist
- How Software is Built: Interview with Eliot Horowitz - CTO of 10gen / MongoDB
- Opscode Blog: Announcing Commercial Support for Open Source Chef
Hi Damien,
...
If I were to list projects as small, medium, and large or small to enterprise, what methodologies work across them? My thoughts are Agile works well, but eventually you'll hit a wall of complexity, which will make you wonder why you didn't see it many, many iterations ago. I don't know anyone at NASA or Space-X or DoD so I don't know what software methodology they use? Given your experience can you shed some light on it?
Regards,
... is not Damien Katz.
TL;DR
The blog post Damien Katz wrote earlier today, doesn't mean much or anything for the Apache CouchDB project (or memcache project for that matter). If anything it's a public note that Damien Katz acknowledged that he moved (on) from CouchDB to Couchbase.
Short story, long
I'm not a contributor to CouchDB by means of code, (but) I blog a lot, I maintain the FreeBSD port, wrote a book and have an opinion on many things …
- How Software is Built: Interview with Damien Katz - Apache CouchDB
- Damien Katz: Couchbase SF Training Was Awesome
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Everything old is new again
- There's no place like ::1: Two more contributions to the open source world
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: A Gentle Introduction to CarrierWave
- The "Tech. Arch.": Camping light (nosql) with MongoDB
…for node.js.
quickie - Quick tests you can embed in your ruby classes. I rather like the idea of not having separate test files.
The Future of CouchDB - According to original author Damien Katz, it's the new Couchbase Server, not the existing Apache CouchDB project.
code.nasa.gov - Early alpha, serious open source code from the space agency.
…Scott: I want to be sensitive to the time. Are there any closing thoughts from your side?
Damien: We've just gone to version 0.11, which is our release candidate for 1.0. We've already been very stable as a database engine, and right now what we're actually trying to stabilize on is our program interface, and we're about ready to go.
Scott: Thanks for taking the time to talk today.
Damien: Thank you.
Bookmark this:
- Damien Katz: Replication
- There's no place like ::1: Two more contributions to the open source world
- paperplanes: Redis and Rails sitting on the Couch
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #633
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: RailsConf Europe: Jacqui Maher, Pat Allan and Intridea - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Binary Logic: Authlogic: keeping you in the loop
3) Damien Katz: Hugely inspirational talk. He sold his house, moved down to NC to write software he was passionate about. He's now writing CouchDB and it's part of the Apache project.
4) DHH : Talked about how RailsConf moved from 30 people meeting after RubyConf to a huge conference. He talked about how Ruby isn't on the fringe anymore. This is the "great surplus" speech, and it will end at some point. The mainstream will copy Rails, something new will …
- Litany Against Fear: Professional Ruby Conference Notes
- McKinney Station: Deploying Sinatra Apps on Dreamhost
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Mooch, a GitHub downloader / vendorer / thingie
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 053: Ruby Arduino Development (RAD)
- Ruby on Rails Development: Gotcha: Ruby Class Variable Scope is Global
- Rails on the Run - Home: Avoid using metaprogramming (seriously!)
My post The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C generated a ton discussion on Reddit and Hacker News , nearly 1200 comments combined as people got in to all sorts of heated arguments. I also got a bunch of private correspondence about it.
So I'm going to answer some of the most common questions, feedback and misunderstandings it's gotten.
Is C the best language for everything?
Hell no! Higher level languages, like Python and Ruby, are extremely …
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: NoSql Databases - Part 1 - Landscape
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: The Scala vs Erlang Debate, Part 2: The Geek Off
- Plataformatec Blog: Elixir v0.2.0 released!
- JJinuxLand: JavaScript: JS.IO is Solid, Hookbox Might be the Bee's Knees
- Joseph Wilk: Testing Outside of the Ruby World
- Litany Against Fear: Messaging with Ruby on Rails Notes
For years I've tried my damnedest to get away from C. Too simple, too many details to manage, too old and crufty, too low level. I've had intense and torrid love affairs with Java, C++, and Erlang. I've built things I'm proud of with all of them, and yet each has broken my heart. They've made promises they couldn't keep, created cultures that focus on the wrong things, and made devastating tradeoffs that eventually make you suffer painfully. And I keep crawling back to C.
- Damien Katz: Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 386 — Semantics Schmemantics
- Scout ~ The Blog: JMX Monitoring
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: A Modern Guide to Threads
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: NoSql Databases - Part 1 - Landscape
- igvita.com: Concurrency with Actors, Goroutines & Ruby
I get mail.
hello damien
I read about you from a book on erlang.
Your couchdb application is really a rave.
please can you help me out ,i've got questions only a working programmer can answer.
i'm shooting now:
i've been programming in java for over 3 years
i know all about the syntax and so on but recently i ran a code counter on my apps and
the code sizes were dismal. 2-3k
commercial popular apps have code sizes in the 100 of thousands.
- How Software is Built: Interview with Damien Katz - Apache CouchDB
- Trevor Turk: Links for 9-19-10
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Data Science at Engine Yard
- till's blog: Small notes on CouchDB's views
- processi: ruote 2.1 released
- paperplanes: Notes on MongoDB
This is our premier Couchbase event. We're going ham.
Come hear speakers from established enterprises and how they are betting their business on Couchbase.
Hang out and talk with speakers, me and other Couchbase engineers in the Couchbase lounge.
I'll be talking at the closing session. Let me know what you'd like to hear about!
Killer after-party. Witness my drunken antics ;)
Some highlights:
Three tracks and nearly 30 technical sessions for dev and ops
- till's blog: Quo vadis, CouchDB?
- High Scalability: Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 30, 2012