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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
Stop Words as Social Signals (a result that goes against IR common knowledge)
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
Encyclia — acquisition, retention, and advocacy consultancy
Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby
I've been a big proponent of NoSQL for a while. I have played with just about all of the new generation of data stores. We almost got cassandra running in production once, and we've been running mongodb in production for about six months now.
Redis, from the Ground Up
A deep dive into the data structure server: origins, design decisions, feature set, applications, and more.
A Story of O(racle)
In recent days I’ve been thinking of JavaOne, as we kicked it around and decided we just couldn’t send speakers ; and of Oracle OpenWorld , to which JavaOne will now serve as an appendage. It reminded me of a conversation I had last year about Oracle.
Six Months of HackerNews Front Page Data
Back in September 2009 I launched a small web app called HNTrends.com, a tool for visualizing the movement of stories on HackerNews’s front page over time. I haven’t worked on the site …
Netflix Prize 10% barrier broken
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3 Rules of Database App Aging
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