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Always Test with Real Data
As I previously noted, I’m in the midst of converting some data (roughly 2 billion records) into documents that will live in a MongoDB cluster. And any time you move data into a new data store, you have to be … Continue reading
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Coding Outside My Comfort Zone: Front-End Hacking with jQuery and flot
To folks who’ve read my tech ramblings over the years, it’s probably no surprise that I generally avoid doing front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) like the plague. In fact, that’s probably one of the reasons I finally migrated my blog … Continue reading
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MySQL 5.5.4-m3 in Production
Back in April I wrote that MySQL 5.5.4 is Very Exciting and couldn’t wait to start running it in production. Now here we are several months later and are using 5.5.4-m3 on all the slaves in what is arguably our … Continue reading
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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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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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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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