Monday, August 22, 2011

NOSQL job trends

NOSQL job trends

Saw this on DZONE and wanted to pass it along. There certainly are a number of companies that are looking for skilled people to work with some of these technologies. I think it would be interesting to see how these positions are being filled? I personally know very few people that have any experience with these data stores, let alone any significant experience.

  - Craig

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Netlix Culture

Netflix Culture

I think this has probably made some rounds, but I found this very interesting. I'm not sure how completely this actually is implemented at Netflix, but I sure like the theory :)

  - Craig

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store

LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store

News about LevelDB has been making the rounds lately. It's another Google project and it definitely looks interesting. LevelDB is a key-value store in library form. It does not appear to be a complete product in and of itself, but can be utilized by many other products.

One very interesting note is the fact the Basho is working on using LevelDB as one of the back end storage options for Riak! It looks like LevelDB would work well for those that are using the InnoDB back end currently. The Bitcast back end keeps all of it's keys in memory and thereby has some limitations as to how many values can be stored per node. InnoDB doesn't have this same limitation and neither does LevelDB.

  - Craig

Monday, August 15, 2011

Backblaze Blog - Petabytes on a Budget

Petabytes on a Budget v2.0: Revealing More Secrets

This really isn't  about big nosql as such, I just was really fascinated by the fact that this company was putting their "secret sauce" out into the public. I mean, how many companies would do that! Obviously you would need their software too in order to recreate their entire service, but very forward thinking none the less. Good job guys!

  - Craig