Pinboard: bookmarks for fjordaan tagged 'database'

Nokia 6300 | DeviceAtlas
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6 weeks ago by fjordaan

High Scalability - High Scalability - How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using MySQL

Jeremy Cole, a DBA Team Lead/Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O'Reilly MySQL conference: Big and Small Data at @Twitter, where the topic was thinking of Twitter from the data perspective.

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december 2011 by fjordaan

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DeviceAtlas | DeviceAtlas

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march 2011 by fjordaan

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DogLost - Reuniting Lost Dogs With Their Owners

DogLost is a national network of thousands of dog owners and volunteers like you, keen to help reunite lost dogs with their owners.

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november 2010 by fjordaan

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: MicroISV on a Shoestring

So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names.

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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My Thoughts on NoSQL - Die in a Fire - Eric Florenzano’s Blog

Over the past few years, relational databases have fallen out of favor for a number of influential people in our industry. I'd like to weigh in on that, but before doing so, I'd like to give my executive summary of the events leading up to this movement:

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july 2009 by fjordaan

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The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

URDB is an open, participatory database for world records. We welcome you to get involved, whether discussing records, beating records or setting new ones of your own. This project is in its infancy, with many features coming in the months ahead. Help us build a community as we collectively push the limits of what mankind can do.

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june 2009 by fjordaan

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PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises

PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.

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january 2009 by fjordaan

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The Internet Pinball Machine Database

The Internet Pinball Machine Database - also known as the IPD or IPDB - is a comprehensive, searchable listing of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made.

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november 2008 by fjordaan

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Freebase

an open, shared database of the world's knowledge

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september 2008 by fjordaan

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IMDbPY

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people and characters. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database.

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january 2008 by fjordaan

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