Oh man, what a day. I attended quite a few talks, grabbed a lot of swag, and entered a few contests. I ended up buying the Arduino Starter Kit from MAKE so I can do some awesome embedded Ruby like I saw at FOSCON. It looks really fun – I can’t wait to try it out. The talks I attended were half-way decent, but I learned a lot more on the first day. Hadoop and EC2 A good overview of [...]
I went to 5 sessions today, and I was pleasantly surprised by most of them. CouchDB CouchDB is a distributed non-relational database written in Erlang. It is unique in that its main query interface is simply HTTP REST, and for every UPDATE, it simply creates a new version of the row. Additionally, you can request the entire history of a row very simply. Hypertable An open-source implementation of Google’s bigtable. Hypertable uses novel methods such as Bloom filters to significantly [...]
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