tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32749545282656354832012-01-01T23:27:47.777-08:00Thoughts from cloudsSeverinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274954528265635483.post-33709260496119693002010-05-14T03:17:00.000-07:002010-05-15T04:10:23.030-07:002010-05-15T04:10:23.030-07:00

Today I'd like to put a light on pretty new project in the field of relational databases. It's called Drizzle and its objective is to compete and even beat MySQL. Drizzle started as a fork of MySQL 6.0 by Brian Aker. The vision was to make a lightweight database system that will suit needs of modern web applications and to trim off all unnecessary features stuffed in MySQL making it slower and

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So let's look on some cloud hosting services and their cost. We will compare pricing of Amazon EC2, Rackspace, ReliaCloud and Joyent cloud on-demand server services. It's not an easy task because the hosting options differs in some aspects like server hardware configurations, supported operation systems or by provided support. This is not benchmark or test, it's just an overview of the options on

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Rackspace made its new app for managing their cloud hosting service available through the Android Market. So you can administer your cloud with your android phone. According to the Rackspace blog post, with this app it's possible to: List all running servers in your cloud Create new Cloud Servers (all available options as in standard web browser application) Resize (scale) Cloud Servers Delete

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In this post i will try to make a rough overview of wtf is the NoSQL database and why and when to use it. Well, we all know how cool and easy it is when programming even the simple application to have data of the application's model stored in a relational SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. It's easy to acces with the well known SQL language, vast majority of developers is familiar with

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Every average linux geek needs some server to manage. Why? You ask me why? It's simple. For fun :). It's great to admin my own svn repository for my will_be_next_killer_app code, benchmarking new cutting edge webservers, experimenting with new web frameworks, having acces to some spare computational power for scientific (1/1*4%5+1=? :)) computations or cracking my own security settings. Small

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The day before Walpurgis Night, long expected new LTS (means three years support for desktop and five years support for server edition) version of Ubuntu has been released. For server administrators it's a good news because they can easily update to the latest software. In addition Ubuntu has quite remarkable support for establishing and using clouds. There is an option to set up Ubuntu on the

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Well, hello. So what's going on here? Well, may be nothing. But sometimes I have a strong feeling that I have to share my (fuckin' extensive:)) knowledge of IT and IT related fields like cooking, linux administration, sustainable gardening, cloud computing, math problems, simulations, knitting, programming of useless utils etc. :). And if there is a field which I know nothing about, be prepared

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