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This reminds me of my project a bit: https://www.scrydata.com/ . I spent a bunch of time trying to automate the migration portion to take the risk out of doing these big migrations…

We built a tool that catches migration regressions before production by replaying real query traffic against shadow databases. The blog post walks through a concrete example: a mis…

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I think that if the uncertainty of the models were under threat, then this would be a bigger issue. We'd be reading about this in Nature, not The Economist. This premise, I think, …

And the "What do we make of this" is definitely a valid question. Every model is going to be inaccurate to some degree. We should strive to improve them! I took issue with picking …

I don't know that I agree with the thesis of this article whatsoever; basically some cherry-picked research estimates "we may only see 1.5 to 2 degree increases, and we haven't had…

This may be old, but I just stumbled upon it.

I'm not sure you read the article fully, because relationships were never described in the article. Instead, it was high read/update load which caused problems. Mongo, on paper, sh…

I'm more interested in which databases people are using.

Funny. I totally forgot that Softlayer had bought ThePlanet. So, I guess the distinction is redundant.

Interesting. Thanks for the info. This is definitely the kind of information I'm looking for.

Joe, We have a combination of random and sequential data access patterns. Our data fits really well into key/value data stores, such as Cassandra. We'd prefer to get 10k qps for ra…

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Our company has run into performance bottlenecks with our current cloud provider (we're very I/O-centric). We're primarily interested in Managed Hosting, possibly with a hybrid clo…

This is an interesting concept. However, I think this article needs to define its target audience better. It seems to be speaking specifically to people doing web hosting (which yo…

It definitely helped to separate the incoming queue from the actions queue on the central loghost. Unfortunately, I don't have good data comparing the two. At this time, our loghos…