Pizza And Code

Cloud Servers Are Not Our Pets

amrith — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:45:04 +0000

http://www.gregarnette.com/blog/2012/05/cloud-servers-are-not-our-pets/ Interesting post by Greg, I never thought of it in those terms but I do remember names of servers from many previous employers…. names of planets, places, animals, … Not any more.

Comparing parallel databases to sharding

amrith — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:18:37 +0000

I just posted an article comparing parallel databases to sharding on the ParElastic blog at http://bit.ly/JaMeVr

It was motivated by the fact that I’ve been asked a couple of times recently how the ParElastic architecture compares with sharding and it occurred to me this past weekend that

“Parallel Database” is a database architecture but sharding [...]

Scaling MongoDB: A year with MongoDB (Engineering at KiiP)

amrith — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:58:17 +0000

Here is the synopsis:

A year with MongoDB in production Nine months spent in moving 95% of the data off MongoDB and onto PostgreSQL

Over the past 6 months, we’ve “scaled” MongoDB by moving data off of it.

Read the complete article here: http://bit.ly/HIQ8ox

Top 5 Challenges Migrating To a New Cloud

amrith — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:12:00 +0000

http://www.hightechinthehub.com/2012/04/top-5-challenges-migrating-to-a-new-cloud/

The need for standardization and some common API’s … Things like Open Stack & Eucalyptus, … maybe?

Laptop vs Mobile (from Fred Wilson’s blog)

amrith — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:49:21 +0000

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AVc/~3/v2vGh2MaFdA/laptop-vs-mobile.html

Interesting post. Now that I’m traveling more, I do face this dilemma.

The tablet (I’m using to post this) doesn’t cut it as a travel device. Not does the droid x2, nor my netbook. But since the option is straining my back and lugging a laptop along, I am making do with [...]

Bits: Hotel’s Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras

amrith — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:37:37 +0000

http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=17c42a2b88a00d5651357aafaa48daae

There is no such thing as a free WiFi … If they can insert ads, what else can they insert?

Widespread Virus Proves Macs Are No Longer Safe From Hackers

amrith — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:34:32 +0000

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/widespread-computer-virus-indicates-mac-users-no-longer-safe/

My heart bleeds for all MAC users who for years thumbed their noses at us Windoze folks.

Welcome to the party!

Old memories … a foggy day on Memorial Day Weekend ’97

amrith — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:54:35 +0000

Was thinking about an old picture I took in 1997.

It is on flickr …

I had copies of this picture made and I used to have it hang on my office wall just as it is above. Look carefully, it is upside down … How often have you seen a duck swimmg in [...]

So Many Conferences – How Do I Choose?

amrith — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:24:26 +0000

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/qVn2ysRHRqY/so-many-conferences-how-do-i-choose.html

Great post by Brad Feld with some very good advice on how to figure out which of the gazillion conferences, expos and shows to attend.

SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL and now and new term …

amrith — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:29:46 +0000

NonsenSQL!

Read all about it at C Mohan’s blog (cmohan.tumblr.com).

Mohan knows a thing or two about databases. As a matter of fact, keeping track of his database related achievements, publications and citations is in itself a big-data problem.

NonsenSQL, read all about it!