Tracy

Slides and video for Voldemort, Cassandra, Dynomite, HBase, Hypertable, CouchDB, VPork, MongoDb - Tracy via Bookmarklet

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The sad tale of sound in Linux. - Tracy via Bookmarklet

I've solved a lot of bugs while sleeping. Now I just need a REM nap room at the office. - Tracy via Bookmarklet

on the nature of introspection - Tracy

It tastes so much better than blackberry brambles. - Tracy

Hadoop + Hive is like MapReduce + SQL. - Tracy via Bookmarklet

"In a number of tests, we observed that our indexing scheme can answer range queries tens of times faster than the well-known indexing schemes." - Tracy via Bookmarklet

Using bitmap indices, range queries can be answered with bitwise logical operations. Since bitwise logical operations are generally very well supported by computer hardware, uncompressed bitmaps involving relatively smaller number of bitmaps can be efficiently answered. In most scientific applications, the number of bitmaps in a bitmap index is typically large, say more than 1000. This... more... - Tracy

Quick overview of scalable infrastructure components. - Tracy via Bookmarklet

Time to join the denormalization revolution! - Tracy

A combination of Paxos and two-phase commit by Jim Gray and Leslie Lamport http://research.microsoft.com/apps... - Sanjay Ghemawat

"Instead, invest the additional time in crafting a broader suite of web services that access data in ways that are most commonly used, so that the smallest possible payload can be returned." Minimization of payload size is not the only variable. Don't forget latency. Depending on response size, a denormalized response that doesn't require additional calls may be better. The best policy: It depends... - Tracy

A neurological reason to hate Biscotti! -- "Indeed, the nerves from the taste buds meet in a part of the brain called the amygdala with nerves that convey information on the softness of food. It is only after these two qualities have been compared that the brain assesses how pleasant a mouthful actually is." - Tracy

... mothers that receive mental training before they become pregnant can pass on its cognitive benefits to their young. - Tracy