Random Musing: Bluring the Line Between Storage and Database?
As food for thought… If you had a table `items` itemId char(40), itemName varchar(128), Another table `tags` tagId char(40), tagName…
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How S3 Fits in Comparison to Other Storage Solutions
So, recently Nick G. Asked “Since you’ve worked with S3 a good bit, I’d like to get your take on…
Where should AmazonAWS go next?
We have SQS, we have S3, and we have EC2, so what next from the Amazon AWS team?. There is…
Is compute as a service for me?
Note to Nick: I havent forgotten your request and I’ll have something on that soon, but when I started in…
Toying with the idea of a podcast
I cant say that I like hearing my own voice… but maybe with some appropriate filters I can sound like…
Taking Requests
It’s the end of a long, hard, day and I’m thinking about writing a blog entry. But… I usually only…
An 90 second introduction to multidimensional arrays in PHP
If a word is a variable, then a sentence is an array. A paragraph is an array of sentences, a…
Rules of thumb for high availability systems (Infrastructure)
Never be at more than ½ capacity If you’re planning a truly highly available system then you have to be…
The RDBMS Misconception That Less is More
It’s commonly held that normalization is a good thing. And it is. But like all good, or more to the…
Myth: Linux doesnt need updates out of the box
I’ve just installed a fresh (from the dvd) Fedora Core 5 install. I checked all packages available to me in…