July 2006

So, I’m building an app where I want amazing database performance, and I’m probably going to start out with a quad-processor dual core system, so I get eight execution threads. This is like getting your first 8 nodes in a clustering solution, without the multi-PC requirements of clustering. Yes, I know there failover advantages to [...]

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The Long Tail book launch date is here. I’ll be at the party tomorrow. My boss, Connie Connors, founder of Connors Communications will also be there, along with our office assistant who scored an invite to this happening event before any of us! I did a few posts recently about the book, but they mostly [...]

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So, there’s a certain spirit of engineer, inventor and entrepreneur that just knows how to get things done. While they might not meet with great fanatical success in their lifetimes, they see their vision to completion, and move the state of all humanity forward. Thomas Edison may be the quintessential example, but we have a [...]

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