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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80 posts.
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Redis, from the Ground Up
A deep dive into the data structure server: origins, design decisions, feature set, applications, and more.
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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.
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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 …
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NoSQL, Heroku, and You
Why NoSQL Matters “NoSQL” is a label which encompasses a wave of innovation now happening in the database space. The NoSQL movement has sparked a whirlwind
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Peewee, a lightweight python ORM
For the past month or so I've been working on writing my own ORM in Python. The project grew out of a need for a lightweight persistence layer for use in Flask web apps. As I've grown so familiar with the Django ORM over the past year, many of the ideas in Peewee are analagous to the concepts in Django. My goal from…
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Edward Tufte: Sparklines: theory and practice
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.