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23rd June, 9:38 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:38:00 +0000

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

29th September, 6:08 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08:00 +0000

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

19th August, 9:15 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:15:00 +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.

17th August, 4:30 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:30:00 +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

24th October, 4:18 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:18:00 +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.

21st March, 4:28 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:28:00 +0000

the movie timeline is a lovely compilation of dates

18th September, 6:17 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:17:00 +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