http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2011-06-23T21:38:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2685/ <p>codahale on <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">cap, harvest and yield</a>. everyone designing distributed systems should read this</p> 2011-06-23T21:38:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-09/2561/ <p>jeremy cole has finally <a href="http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/">solved</a> the mysql swapping-for-no-reason issue. very nice work [via ph]</p> 2010-09-29T06:08:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-08/2541/ <p>thanks to kastner for pointing me to <a href="http://kottke.org/04/10/normalized-data">this thread</a> from 6 years ago. guess what retarded commenters? i was right all along. see also: everything written on large distributed databases since then.</p> 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-08/2540/ <p>noting these down for later reference - two <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-PostgreSQL">excellent</a> <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-store-rather-than-NoSQLs-such-as-Cassandra-MongoDB-CouchDB-etc">answers</a> on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently</p> 2010-08-17T04:30:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2382/ <p>a couple of interesting alternatives to phpMyAdmin, both simpler: <a href="http://sqlbuddy.com/">sqlbuddy</a> looks like a really well done minimalist effort, while <a href="http://code.google.com/p/phpminiadmin/">phpMiniAdmin</a> like like PMA from 10 years ago.</p> 2009-10-24T16:18:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-03/2098/ <p>the movie timeline is a <a href="http://www.themovietimeline.com/">lovely compilation</a> of dates</p> 2009-03-21T04:28:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1933/ <p>in a joe stump talk at the expo - had not heard of <a href="http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=showpage&amp;pid=540">base</a> before, as an alternative to acid in our new cap world. flickr is pretty base</p> 2008-09-18T18:17:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)