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Introduction: So much good stuff this week... Adrian Cockcroft Compares NoSQL Availability Models . Let's risk feeding the CAP trolls, and try to get some insight into the differences between the many NoSQL contenders . Adrian asks how each NoSQL product will add a movie to its favorites list, read it back, and how this works across availability zones. Much trickier than it sounds with multiple writers. Cassandra and MongoDB answer back. Stuff the Internet Says: @jerng : Reading up on scalability. WHY THE HELL FOR? Because I want to know the future. @freerangedata : The #nosql options are the micro brews/craft beers of data stores. So many good ones, so little time to try them all. @edward_ribeiro : Soon, Darwinism will start to play its role on #NoSQL systems. You know, only the fittest will survive. @connectionreq : I'm always wowed when I hear how Facebook abuses their MySQL databases in crazy ways @louismrose : This is the kind of scalability we should be wo
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2 @connectionreq : I'm always wowed when I hear how Facebook abuses their MySQL databases in crazy ways @louismrose : This is the kind of scalability we should be working on. [sent-16, score-0.248]
3 @Taggerz : evented I/O is not magic scalability pixie dust, and like anything, there is a tradeoff. [sent-22, score-0.162]
4 @CBVirtualPA : Instant scalability - How good is it to know that if a big job comes in, you’ve got the back up to handle it. [sent-23, score-0.159]
5 Each of our redis servers process on average 3500 queries per second. [sent-26, score-0.105]
6 For workloads with abundant parallelism, GPUs deliver higher peak computational throughput than latency-oriented CPUs. [sent-33, score-0.25]
7 Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan discuss the origin and evolution of the Google File System. [sent-35, score-0.084]
8 For the sake of this discussion, we'll define scalability as the ability to add computational resources to a database in order to gain more throughput. [sent-38, score-0.349]
9 Last week, we introduced the Federation concept in SQL Azure in this talk. [sent-43, score-0.078]
10 In the next few posts, I’ll detail the upcoming concept and how to build applications using federations in SQL Azure. [sent-44, score-0.168]
11 Google continues its quest to speed up the Internet by releasing mod_pagespeed for Apache , which p erforms many speed optimizations automatically. [sent-46, score-0.1]
12 We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance. [sent-47, score-0.1]
13 If we're maxed out of one of the resources we need to add capacity, attempting to spin up a new node is only going to make the situation worse. [sent-55, score-0.096]
14 Instead of doing stuff in the code and putting it in the cache, what we can do now is do the stuff atomically in the cache itself. [sent-58, score-0.172]
15 The long list of issues associated with sessions at the various cloud conferences from security to picking a hypervisor remain moot until the cloud industry becomes more price competitive with on premise computing options. [sent-70, score-0.162]
16 I heard an unconfirmed rumor that facebook is moving away from Cassandra. [sent-72, score-0.244]
17 Not sure why, or to what, but rumors like this is a concern regardless. [sent-73, score-0.09]
18 Google with classes on Exploring computational thinking . [sent-74, score-0.169]
19 Let's try to remember computational thinking isn't the only kind of thinking we need, but it does seem to be the only kind emphasized. [sent-75, score-0.329]
20 We are discussing the merits of a no-fence CAS instruction - and exposing this instruction at the Java level. [sent-79, score-0.319]
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