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Microsoft's APIs have traditionally been poorly written, bizarre, late, often built specifically to force vendor lock-in, and seem even now to appear and disappear depending on whi…

at first I thought this was a humorous documentary about the sorts of dumb questions that novice interviewers use to make themselves look smart. But I fear after looking at it for …

Amazon clearly needs a change in management at the head of AWS. The engineers are either petrified of telling the truth (very, very bad) or incompetent (less bad but still bad). An…

if it doesn't make sense to you, and you suggest using triggers (!) and mongodb map reduce (!) to get stats, then you are probably working at very small scale. There are a number o…

when you are asked if you've ever been involved in a lawsuit, the reasonable assumption that the person is interested in knowing of your involvement in lawsuits, not if you are cap…

would you expect someone who writes articles about DBMSes, or comments in a thread about them, to understand that memory mapped file size is (a) not necessarily limited to address …

it introduces a lock in your code, because that is what you want -- you want the string to be built by one thread only. Why the strange comments about 'yet another lock' and the sy…

per their submission history, OP has also attempted to generate buzz here by posting over and over: How the Galaxy In-Memory Data Grid Handles Networking How the Galaxy In-Memory D…

oh my god I wonder what dalton caldwell had for breakfast today

Redis is a particular product, not a catch-all for low latency in-memory data stores. So saying your product is a Redis (which you did, rather than making an analogy) was merely em…

I don't think you understand Redis. Redis is also a key-value store, but implements a variety of structures, not just RTree, and has a large number of operations on those data stru…

Product appears to have nothing to do with Redis and isn't even remotely compatible. Marketer uses buzzword to attempt to get credibility and hence immediately loses all credibilit…

The good thing about the AppStore password timing out after 15 minutes is that you can hand your child the ipad/iphone/etc. and not get a surprise $5,000 itunes bill.

Maybe it's just me, but I find the e-paper Kindles to be absolutely terrible reading experiences. The text is still relatively low contrast, but the real deal killer is the refresh…

how about 'the evidence on display in front of us'?

Reading between the lines from both the posted note and their persistent failure to provide correct statuses: the ops guys over there are in full CYA desperation mode somewhere aro…

PHP is more expressive than python, ruby, or java. I see.

you are incorrect.

I would say there's a difference. PHP is bad because it has a wide variety of objectively awful design flaws, its standard library is a conflicted mess, and it's unperformant. Impl…

I wonder what Microsoft's hardware partners think of all this. It's not just competition, they actively disparaged the others by saying that it was as powerful as all the ultrabook…

Beyond the other listed benefits: Percona also provides support contracts quite inexpensively, which can be worth their weight in diamonds. I bought a support contract after our Pe…

95% of even good developers wouldn't be able to tell when a sql sanitization function is poorly coded or has a hidden gotcha. Having the source is not nearly as important as trusti…

first, poison all the employees and burn down the restaurant. Then, write recipes to ensure that this does not happen.

"At scale in production, adding a new node took days to complete all the handoffs..." That's a bit of a headscratcher. What is happening during those 'days' and what is the primary…

"Today, however, Prasad no longer feels the need for the security blanket. “In the tablet version of the server, we’re still using Node, but now the clients are talking directly fr…