Jason’s .plan

Just a quick set of thoughts…do cloud-scale DBs save money because they’re based on commodity/cheap servers? Tonight I did some rough back-of-the-pad calculations, and was kind of surprised…
Let’s assume we’ve got an 11TB working set of data, how could we store this redundantly?
(cloud servers in these examples are dedicated servers at a cloud provider)
Option 1: [...]

However, there are three in-particular, that are designed to be highly flexible message queues for their own sake: Apache ActiveMQ ZeroMQ RabbitMQ Apache ActiveMQ seems to get the most press, but it appears to have some issues not losing messages. … So, without further ado…here is a reduction of a weeks’ worth of reading up on AMQP and how it works in RabbitMQ…and how to play with it in Python: Playing telephone There are four building blocks you really care about in AMQP: virtual hosts, exchanges, queues and bindings.

The past few years at DigiTar have been a heck of a learning curve for me as a developer…er…manager of developers. You graduate college with a CS degree and at the world you go…happy as a pig in stuff. Think you know everything you need. What you don't realize is that you don't know anything. [...]