You got performance in my scalability! You got scalability in my performance! Two great tastes that taste great together:
Quotable quotes:
@ jasoncbooth : Tired of the term # nosql. I would like to coin NRDS (pronounced "nerds"), standing for Non Relational Data Store.
@ zenfeed : One lesson I learn about scalability, is that it has a LOT to do with simplicity and consistency.
Ray Walters : Quad-core chips in mobile phones is nothing but a marketing snow job
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…designers, then "suits", is a 15″ MacBook Pro ( Quad-core i7 running at 2.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM and hooray, the trackpad supports right-clicking). It's sleek, it's sexy, and I'm just as fond of it as I was of my favourite "axe" when I was a Microsoftie: the Dellasaurus (a ridiculously souped-up orange 17″ Dell Precision M6500 with 16 gigs of RAM).
The problem is that in an office where fifty or so people have the exact same machine, …
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…. It's essentially a kick-ass server machine packed into a 17" laptop body. It has a quad-core Intel i7 chip, 16GB RAM, 1GB video RAM, mechanical and solid state hard drive, and it runs Visual Studio and rips DVDs simultaneously without skipping a beat. To borrow a line from my hero Ferris Bueller: "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."
The bars are great for hanging out or working solo or in pairs. If you're …
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…speeds up e.g. action_pack test-suite by 200%. Finally a good excuse for buying Dual/ Quad-Core. Speedup those tests, go parallel!
by grosser
Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL (with help from Ruby) There is no reason why we can't have a schema-free MySQL engine to compete with the NoSQL solutions. A look at what "schema-free" and "document-oriented" actually means, and the ruby code to make it work .
by igrigorik
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