Wednesday, June 01, 2011

MySQL for Big Data

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An excerpt from article on mysql for big data published in Dow Jones Venture Wire by Scott Denne. There is one possible solution to the pro...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Presenting "Real-Life Use Cases From Data Administration Hell" at LAMySQL

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If you're in the Los Angeles area on Feb 15, come hear my talk at LAMySQL inspired by learnings from real-life experiences. In addition ...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

SEO / SEM SWOT

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Since most of my friends here have asked me questions on SEO. I thought i'd share this presentation that I posted on SlideShare. This wa...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Disaster @ Tumblr

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Tumblr has been down for more than 12 hours due to an issue with their database cluster. Here is the comment I left on GigaOm.com This is th...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

Sequoia backs MongoDB with $6.5M investment

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Some exciting news coming from 10Gen , the company behind MongoDB . It announced today that Seqouia is investing $6.5M in it's high pe...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Video: Netflix's migration to AWS cloud

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Found this video regarding Netflix's migration to Amazon's AWS cloud very informative. Enjoy!

Cloud Migration Whitepapers

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Amazon's AWS team has published a series of whitepapers covering various scenarios for migrating into AWS cloud infrastructure . Links t...

Big Data: Freedom or Something Else?

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Googling around, I came across Bradford Cross' article, Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom . Bradford writes, " Th...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

SQL and NoSQL

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Alaric Snell-Pym discusses why choose between SQL and NoSQL? Why can't you use both in your infrastructure? "NoSQL engines abando...

Hate the dirty recruitment tactics

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I hate it when recruiters reach out to you with a message indicating that they are looking for 'key positions' and when you follow u...
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Lean Startups and Scalability

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I wrote this as a reply to Does Lean Startup Methodology Apply to Consumer Startups? " However, due to comment length restrictions on t...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Probably the worst way to deal with a stuck query...

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is to disable a customer's account for more than 24 hours without any warning whatsoever. This happened to one of my accounts and I'...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

MySQL at Facebook

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Mark your calendars for Nov 2 as Mark Callaghan and Facebook's MySQL team will be talking about how MySQL is used at Facebook .
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Hadoop Elastic MapReduce by AWS

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Amazon today launched a beta of it's Elastic MapReduce ( hosted hadoop ). This is exciting and just in time for my upcoming, Hadoop and...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Community One East - What will Sun announce?

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I will be attending Community One tomorrow and on Thursday at Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY. I am especially looking forward to the ...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Cloud Computing - Executive Seminar

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Tomorrow, I'll be attending the Executive Seminar on Cloud Computing at NASDAQ MarketSite (NY). Speakers include Dr. Werner Vogels and ...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

FriendFeed uses MySQL to store "Schema-less" data

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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 . ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

OpenSQL Camp Starts Tomorrow!

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So the good news is that the inaugural OpenSQL Camp is going to be an awesome event with mouth watering sessions by noted experts. The bad ...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Stack Overflow: Q&A Site

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Today I discovered Stack Overflow , a collaborative site that focuses on technical Questions. You can ask questions related to any language,...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Scalability As A Functional Or Non Functional Requirement

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I am currently tasked with writing Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document for a project. Effective sharding (based on specific c...
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