Monday, December 31, 2012

Sammy


"Near-term volatility will continue for Apple(NASDAQ:AAPL), with a third straight earnings miss not entirely out of the question, according to engineering and finance expert Sammy the Walrus IV, who writes a Tumblr blog called AAPL Orchard."

When Sammy the Walrus IV speaks, people listen.. 

Thursday, December 06, 2012

Data Layer!

Look! I switched from one crappy "Database" to a crappy "Data Layer". I do have to hand it to Cloundant.. Data Layer is some great marketing.

http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/37338222496/bye-mongodb-hello-cloudant

-JD

Inserting this record costs an additional .00025 cents

Yes, the masters of computer science at Tokutek have created a "Fractal Tree Index", that speeds up indexing by 80x! Amazing.
What would you pay for this ground breaking technology? How about $25 per GB per year. (Actually $2500 per 100GB). Kind of amazing to think that my 1 TB DB suddenly costs an additional $25K per year.

http://www.tokutek.com/products/
http://www.tokutek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tokudb-price-list-rev11.pdf

-JD