Author Archives: Jeremy Zawodny
Testing Redis 2.0.0 Release Canidate with Perl
I’m pretty excited about the upcoming 2.0.0 release of Redis. As you can see in the changelog, I made a few minor contributions to this release. I’m most excited about being able to perform unions and intersections with sorted sets … Continue reading
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Some Recipes I’d Like To Try This Summer
One of the great things about learning to cook is the plethora of good recipe web sites you can find. And while the recipes aren’t necessarily as good or in-depth as some cookbooks, they do have the benefits of user ratings, … Continue reading
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The Dumb and The Smart of the Internet Age
In two competing but somewhat orthogonal essays in The Wall Street Journal, Clay Shirky and Nicholas Carr ostensibly argue opposite sides of the Internet’s effects on society. In Does the Internet Make You Smarter? Shirky tries to put the Internet … Continue reading
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MongoDB Early Impressions
I’ve been doing some prototyping work to see how suitable MongoDB is for replacing a small (in number, not size) cluster of MySQL servers. The motivation for looking at MongoDB in this role is that we need a flexible and … Continue reading
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Ubuntu 10.4 Impressions
I’ve upgraded two desktop computers to the 64bit release of Ubuntu 10.4 in the last week. One was a fresh install (my desktop at the office, a Dell Optiplex 755) and the other was an in-place upgrade (my desktop at … Continue reading
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The Craigslist Blog
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that there’s an official craigslist blog where you can find responses to the various folks attacking or criticizing us in the media–often without conducting basic background research. Some people thing that craigslist … Continue reading
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I Want a New Data Store
While there is a dizzying array of technologies that have the “NoSQL” label applied to them, I’m looking for one to replace a MySQL cluster. This particular cluster has roughly a billion records in it, uses a few TB of … Continue reading
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What NOT to focus on for on-line success…
This morning I came across a presentation by Drew Houston (CEO of Dropbox) called Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned. On slide #24 I noticed a list of things they did poorly or didn’t do at all: hiring non-engineers mainstream PR traditional messgaing/positioning … Continue reading
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MySQL 5.5.4 is Very Exciting
Yesterday at the MySQL Conference, I spent time in a few sessions discussing the performance enhancements in the MySQL 5.5.3 and 5.5.4 milestone releases. What I saw made me very, very happy. In fact, the timing couldn’t be better. We’re … Continue reading
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Emacs and Perl cperl-mode Color Syntax weirdness after Ubuntu Upgrade
For a quite some time now I’ve been happily using Ubuntu on my desktop and the emacs-snapshot-gtk package of GNU Emacs to get good fonts and a recent Emacs. I edit a lot of Perl code and use cperl-mode to … Continue reading
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