CodePlex, patents and Linux code. An interesting few days for Microsoft open source.
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CodePlex, CodePlex, CodePlex!
Microsoft launched the CodePlex Foundation to facilitate
open source contributions, and confirmed the departure of Sam Ramji.
Patents, Patents, Patents!
The OIN confirmed the acquisition of 22 patents formerly
owned by …
A couple interesting things coming out of startup land.
For one, Posterous has a little writeup on Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way. Good things to take away include using Sphinx/Solr for search, but the real important takeaway for the MySQL crowd is Storage engine matters, and you should probably use InnoDB. If you’re writing an application, know your storage engines. There are also bits to tell you how to use query_viewer and New Relic to help you fix database bottlenecks, use memcached later, and more. Its a great read.
Next up, there’s How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. I hope Bret from FriendFeed writes more on their infrastructure over …
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Came across an interesting post by Bret (co-founder of FriendFeed) about how
FriendFeed uses MySQL to store "schema-less"
data. According to the post, they weren't having issues with
scaling existing features but rather they were experiencing pain
when trying to add features.
Now the way they are using MySQL is interesting and bizarre at the same time.
At a very high level, it seems their approach is to use a RDBMS
as if it is a column-oriented database. Of course, it makes me
wonder why not just use a column-oriented database? I need to
read the post again in the morning (too tired right now so just
gave it a quick glance).
I am very interested in hearing thoughts from my peers at Planet
MySQL regarding this approach. They seem to …
Executive summary: There is now a MySQL Room on FriendFeed, as well as a identi.ca group for mysql. Community members, developers, dabblers, users, etc. should find these extra avenues useful, in addition to the forums, mailing lists, and even the Forge. Join them now!
There has been a recent uptake of Twitter amongst the MySQL community… Early adopters have been around for ages, even (as we’re slowly approaching Twitter’s third birthday).
However, I’ve been noticing that slowly, …
[Read more]Yahoo! in cloud OR Hadoop? (Яху в облаках) by Alexander & Natalie
tl;dr: Yahoo adds SmugMug support to Profiles. Windows Live coming. Lots of other services, too.
Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Woke up this morning to this story on TechCrunch about 20 new services they’d added to Yahoo Profiles (here’s mine). Lo and behold, SmugMug is one of them! …
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