Novembre, 2012

From a comment on Hacker News:

(link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705387)

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Full disclosure: I work for an AWS competitor.
While none of the specific AWS systemic failures may themselves be foreseeable, it is not true th…

I assume you already read the AWS report[1] about recent troubles. I think it is a very good argument you could use at work against design complexity and in favor of designing stuff that are at a complexity level where analysis of failure modes and pre…

I love Github issues, it is one of the awesome things at Github IMHO: as simple as possible but actually under the hood pretty full featured.

However one of the things I love more is labels. It is a truly powerful thing to organize issues in a project…

In this busy days I had the idea to focus on a single, non-huge, self contained project for some time, that could allow me to work focused as much as hours as possible, and could provide a significant advantage to the Redis community.

It turns out, th…

I’m proud to be mentioned in this well-thought and non-bigot post: http://www.nerdess.net/waffling/why-it-awesome-be-girl-tech/

Also in perfect accordance with the hacking culture, the post is sort of an HOWTO for girls that want to be involved in IT….

I’m pretty surprised no one tried to write a wrapper for redis-rb or other clients implementing a Dynamo-style system on top of Redis primitives.

Basically something like that:

1) You have a list of N Redis nodes.
2) On write, use consistent hashing …

From an HN comment[1]

“(Geek note: In the late nineties I worked briefly with a D&D fanatic ops team lead. He threw a D100 when he came in every morning. Anything >90 he picked a random machine to failover ‘politely’. If he threw a 100 he went to the …

You can follow the commits in the next days in the “psync” branch at github:

https://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/psync
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While I consider the Amazon Dynamo design, and its original paper, one of the most interesting things produced in the field of databases in recent times, in the Redis world eventual consistency was never particularly discussed.

Redis Cluster for insta…

There is a new DB option out there, I know it took a long time to be developed. While I don’t know very well how it works I hope it will be an interesting player in the database landscape.

My initial feeling is that it will compete closely with Riak a…

Comments

This post by Peter Bailis is a must read. “Safety and Liveness: Eventual consistency is not safe” [1].

[1] http://www.bailis.org/blog/safety-and-liveness-eventual-consistency-is-not-safe/

An extreme TL;DR of this is.

1) In an eventually consistent s…