Databases & Data

Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars

Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics

Square Corner Blog2012104 points16 comments details

The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.

Download Public User Data with Oink's Export Tool

Cristina Cordova2012103 points52 comments details

Run SQL on MongoDB

Citus Data Blog2012103 points34 comments details

Why we didn't use a bloom filter

Josiah Carlson2012102 points36 comments details

Josiah Carlson talks about Redis, Python, and other technology topics.

Subsecond Offset Visualizations: Unusual patterns from cloud computing

Bryan Cantrill2012102 points5 comments details

One way to fix your rubbish password database

John Graham-Cumming2012101 points89 commentscited by 3 details

Suppose for a moment that you are running a web site that has a poorly implemented password database that stores password hashes using some...

Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents

Drew Conway2012101 points24 comments details

ZIA is a place for me to “think out loud,” about my current and future research.  As the author, my goals are to share my ideas, highlight new research, and possibly develop new tools along the way.

OrmHate

Martin Fowler2012100 points183 commentscited by 8 details

Object-Relational Mappers get a lot of hate from people who misjudge the complexities of the task.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed . Our database has grown a lot as our user base has grown. We now store over 250 million entries and a bunch of other data, from comments and "likes" to friend lists.