http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/06/hey-twitter-your-problems-are-my-problems.php Stuff. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:01:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/06/hey-twitter-your-problems-are-my-problems.php/comment-page-1#comment-15944 eric Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:09:11 +0000 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/?p=275#comment-15944 Google BigTables does this automatically. Google's AppEngine platform is opening up sharding to us plebeians so we don't have to learn how to configure MySQL for sharding (a quick google search for the topic didn't yield any obvious tutorials last week). While there are other technical problems with AppEngine platform at the present time, such as migrating data forward when you made a Model/Schema change, it does start to teach normal developers the logic and the reasoning behind sharding. Two weeks ago at Google I/O, one of the team members gave a good introductory talk on how to use sharding. In fact, on the AppEngine plaform, you can't join across tables because of the performance impact. I wonder how far away open source database such as CouchDb are from picking up the performance such that they could be considered a viable alternative to relational databases. The last I read, CouchDb has such an abysmal write throughput that it has a _long_ way to go. Google BigTables does this automatically. Google’s AppEngine platform is opening up sharding to us plebeians so we don’t have to learn how to configure MySQL for sharding (a quick google search for the topic didn’t yield any obvious tutorials last week). While there are other technical problems with AppEngine platform at the present time, such as migrating data forward when you made a Model/Schema change, it does start to teach normal developers the logic and the reasoning behind sharding. Two weeks ago at Google I/O, one of the team members gave a good introductory talk on how to use sharding. In fact, on the AppEngine plaform, you can’t join across tables because of the performance impact. I wonder how far away open source database such as CouchDb are from picking up the performance such that they could be considered a viable alternative to relational databases. The last I read, CouchDb has such an abysmal write throughput that it has a _long_ way to go.

]]> http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/06/hey-twitter-your-problems-are-my-problems.php/comment-page-1#comment-15934 Ryan Toohil Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:39:49 +0000 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/?p=275#comment-15934 No, we should just go start our own company. Then we will never need to make resumes again. No, we should just go start our own company. Then we will never need to make resumes again.

]]> http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/06/hey-twitter-your-problems-are-my-problems.php/comment-page-1#comment-15933 jason Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:31:19 +0000 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/?p=275#comment-15933 This would make a lovely cover letter for a resume. This would make a lovely cover letter for a resume.

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