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On a quick read of this the move seems pretty to have a pretty considerable impact on me, while I appreciate the free service it sounds like it’s been a trap. I’ve had gsuite for a…

While it's nice to get paged, and look at every 5xx error; it doesn't really scale all that well once you get past a certain point, particularly if your application is gracefully d…

Just a thought... If your storage layer has support for taking a consistent snapshot of your file system then you might be able to use this to get a backup. You would get a copy of…

Plenty of other machines have Amazing IO in this day and age now. It is a fairly old notion now that Mainframes were much better at IO than other machines (this /was/ true). That s…

I'll hook something together this weekend in terms of a benchmark. The nice thing with JRuby is you get the concurrency features of the runtime.

Hmm, from what I remember, Reproducibility became a big issue in SIGMOD. In 2008 they introduced some new requirements when submitting a paper. http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogsp…

Unfortunately... I have seen this happen more than once, and even the big fish can get taken for this ride.

I second iTerm. Its Great

Yeah, there certainly are a few more tricks with regards to scaling RDBMS than the author covered. Depending on what your demands are there are different techniques and protocols w…