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Yeah, I am not sure how multiple queries will co-exist in this strategy. Especially, if you have two queries which are not commutative (say, one which increments a column and the o…

The fact that we can do parallel reads from an SSD does give more flexibility to DB developers.

I'm going to provide basic answers here. You can look at the homepage for more detailed answers (the video linked there is very helpful too) [1]. Main use case: Multi-threaded low …

Germany with 2.8 million is equally interesting. The country's population is 80m. Atleast one in 35 people there is in the top 1%.

It depends on personal taste. But if I were going to a country I never visited before, there would be very little time to do anything else other than sightseeing, mingling with the…

I couldn't find any documentation about it, but is there any way to achieve forward/backward compatibility with Transit?

Yeah, I hope I am interpreting this the wrong the way. But instead of doing X.getA().getB().getC().getD() we have to X.flatMap(X::getA) .flatMap(X::getB) .map(X::getC) .orElse("UNK…

The problem is not to to just get from point A to B, but to have a good experience doing it. Air travel is getting worse every year. Starting from the airport checks to the long im…

The above link is a summary to the paper. Here is the actual publication: http://cnlab.kaist.ac.kr/~ikjun/data/Course_work/CS642-Distr...

> The world is wide open to you. In the United States probably. The author doesn't sound too old, and says that he/she got access to the internet much later. Which means the author…

Took me a while to figure it out too. I think the title would have been best written as "Hadoop and Go". Its maybe because I'm new to the language, but I have to add 'lang' to all …

Rich Hickey is a genius. I love how he connected music to software engineering [1]. He should write a book on some of these topics. He has a lot more than 45 mins talks to offer to…

You should give it a try. RethinkDB, imo, embraces a lot of good ideas from the SQL world. Given a few years, I feel they will have a great DB with good ideas from both the SQL and…

A precursor to the compilers class is the Formal Automata one. This is very useful in understanding fundamental computation models (what is computation, why, how can we do it etc..…

Can't wait for this feature. I am wondering if they would do the opposite: Offer paper books for a lower price to customers who own the kindle?

Reminds me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/927/