Mongoez

I laughed so hard I choked on my Mango.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/nosql/mongodb-sets-its-sights-beyond-nosql-competitors-218482

MongoDB sets its sights beyond NoSQL competitors

The NoSQL database is challenging rivals like Oracle MySQL and IBM DB2

"The main benefit for us is that we can update 2,500, 3,000 times a second on the fly, no problem,"

Bob

Thought for the day:
A 'Bob Dylan' won't even make it through American Idol auditions.

The kernel is the problem, not the solution.

Interesting article.. I like the idea of data plane vs control plane… On the other hand, like all BIG DATA/SCALABILITY things, you probably don't need this. Just buy a bigger computer and be done with it.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html

Useful primers

http://jeremykun.com/primers/

Hadoop

I'm perplexed.
I have 14 machines, with 24 cores each. Each has 12 Drives for a total of 168 drives and around 500Gbps of io. This is HADOOP so we are mostly streaming files in and streaming them back out (relatively low iops).
And yet processing a 1TB dataset is a multi hour affair.

Of course. It's just that simple

 

SAS

I can't say enough BAD things about SAS. Anyone actively promoting this as a language/system people should be learning in any year after 1981 is completely delusional. Unless you work as some giant soul crushing enterprise that regularly buys ridiculously overpriced licenses for software that hasn't substantially changed in 20 years, and I'm sure has MS-DOS'isms buried in its code base… Then, yeah.

Rules for Most SAS Names

Note:   The rules are more flexible for SAS variable names than for other language elements. See Rules for SAS Variable Names.  

• The length of a SAS name depends on the element it is assigned to. Many SAS names can be 32 characters long; others have a maximum length of 8.