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I'm not sure if it should be plural when referring to the technology in general. "Powered by blockchains technology" doesn't seem correct to me. I do hope you'll read the article r…

I probably should not be capitalizing it ever and using it as singular everywhere. Thanks for pointing that out

It is interesting how Go seems to be doomed to head down the same path as other languages it accused of being "bloated." No one intends to design a complicated language but the rea…

Yes microbatching is a great way to get a fixed write rate regardless of traffic, can even do it right at the application layer. The trade-off is that you can theoretically lose on…

There are a few misguided views in this article and in some of these comments. 1. Every shardable database (Cassandra, Dynamo, BigTable) has to worry about hot spots. Picking a UUI…

Great advice to everyone, not just self-learners

Yeah I don't get why they're marketing to Mongo users, weird choice. This is a DB for companies trying to moved to a query-less architecture - something no one should be doing with…

Cross datacenter replication is the missing piece from AWS. I wish they'd just roll out a hosted Cassandra or something identical

Implementing aggregation at query time is a temporary solution. For systems like this aggregation should be done on insert time - many hugely popular databases do not provide much …

Databases in this category are some of the most popular ones in the world with good reason. The only way you can scale is to adopt a query-free architecture. It feels tedious at fi…