iamcal.com Linklog

2011-06-23 14:38:57

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:38:57 +0000

codahale on cap, harvest and yield. everyone designing distributed systems should read this

2010-09-28 23:08:25

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:08:25 +0000

jeremy cole has finally solved the mysql swapping-for-no-reason issue. very nice work [via ph]

2010-08-19 14:15:52

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:15:52 +0000

thanks to kastner for pointing me to this thread from 6 years ago. guess what retarded commenters? i was right all along. see also: everything written on large distributed databases since then.

2010-08-16 21:30:47

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:30:47 +0000

noting these down for later reference - two excellent answers 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

2009-10-24 09:18:10

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:18:10 +0000

a couple of interesting alternatives to phpMyAdmin, both simpler: sqlbuddy looks like a really well done minimalist effort, while phpMiniAdmin like like PMA from 10 years ago.

2009-03-20 21:28:40

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:28:40 +0000

the movie timeline is a lovely compilation of dates

2008-09-18 11:17:46

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:17:46 +0000

in a joe stump talk at the expo - had not heard of base before, as an alternative to acid in our new cap world. flickr is pretty base