Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by iamelgringo » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 7:36 AM UTC

What are the best shiny new technologies that you worked with this past year? I'm always interested in hearing about what others are working with, and loving.

edit I'd also love to hear what you love about it and why.

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Post by spooneybarger » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 7:42 AM UTC

Seaside

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Post by pwpwp » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 7:53 AM UTC

GAE: if you can reduce your problem to searching in a b-tree, you're in heaven.

GWT: code for the browser like it's 1984.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by aitoehigie » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 7:56 AM UTC

web2py and GAE

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#5

Post by _urga » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:15 AM UTC

Tokyo Cabinet (key value storage: removed the "R" and "M" from "ORM", managed to get an object from disk to the client with the object being opaque to the server, cutting deserialization/serialization overhead down, implemented indexes to keep track of keys and got more of an idea of what MySQL does behind the scenes).

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:15 AM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:24 AM UTC

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Post by BerislavLopac » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:29 AM UTC

Django :)

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Post by jbjohns » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:42 AM UTC

_urga wrote: post #5

Tokyo Cabinet (key value storage: removed the "R" and "M" from "ORM", managed to get an object from disk to the client with the object being opaque to the server, cutting deserialization/serialization overhead down, implemented indexes to keep track of keys and got more of an idea of what MySQL does behind the scenes).

Isn't this similar to what berkley db does?

EDIT: Genuine curiosity, not trying to make a point.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

#10

Post by simonw » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 8:43 AM UTC

Redis. It's a very different kind of database - being able to perform 80,000 set or list operations a second enables a whole bunch of solutions to otherwise difficult problems (real time stats stuff, writing in to activity streams etc). SRANDMEMBER on its own is invaluable since picking a random item from a regular relational database using ORDER BY RAND() tends to kill it stone dead under load.