Henceforth, I dub thee GLAMP
I’ve decided to start replacing L with GL in acronyms where L supposedly stands for Linux. I’m not a big user of acronyms, because I think they are exclusionist and they obscure, rather than revealing....
View ArticleMySQL Conference and Expo 2008, Day Two
Day two of the conference was a little disappointing, as far as sessions went. There were several time blocks where I simply wasn’t interested in any of the sessions. Instead, I went to the expo hall...
View ArticleDrizzle stops the rain
I’ve been following the Drizzle project with some interest. There’s a lot to like about it. But you know what I like most about the project? No dual licensing. Just plain GPL, version 2. I personally...
View ArticleBrian Aker: 20GB doesn’t fit on a single server
Brian got interviewed by O’Relly recently, and part of it quoted him as saying this: When everything doesn’t fit onto a computer, you have to be able to migrate data to multiple nodes. You need some...
View ArticlePostmodern databases
Dr. Richard Hipp gave a talk at Southeast Linux Fest today on choosing an open-source database. He thinks that NoSQL is not a very good name for the new databases we’re seeing these days, so he...
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