HighAvailability
Hilarious Video: Relational Database vs NoSQL Fanbois
Sep 5th
This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it’s hilarious, but it’s also not a bad overview of the issues. Especially loved: You read the latest post on HighScalability.com and think you are a f*cking Google and architect and parrot slogans like Web Scale and Sharding but you have no idea what the f*ck you are talking about. There are so many more gems like that.
Thanks to Alex Popescu for posting this on . Whoever made this deserves a Webby.
Hot Scalability Links For Sep 3, 2010
Sep 3rd

With summer almost gone, it’s time to fall into some good links…
- written in Erlang. In this video Scott Lystig Fritchie gives a very good overview of the newest key-value store.
- Tweets of Gold
- : with 12 staff, @ serves 1.5billion pageviews/month and 25,000 signups/day. Now that’s scalability!
- : Funny that whenever a high scalability article comes out, it always mention the shared nothing approach
- : When life gives you lemons, you can have decades-long conquest to convert lemons to oranges, or you can make lemonade.
- : Met an old man with mustache today, he had no opinion on . Note to myself: Don’t grow a mustache, now or later.
- : Isn’t it interesting how P2P distributes data while Cloud Computing centralizes it? And they’re both said to be the future.
- You may be interested in a new organized by Dave Nielson, so you know it will be good.

