Getting [On|Off] the CouchDB? 
				

				
	June 30, 2009 |
	by Garrett 


                                

					Based on my recent experimenting with CouchDB I have conflicted feelings of whether to get on, or stay off the couch. I am intrigued by the notion of a schema-free document-based database, and how applications could be created to leverage such a technology. I am also reserved about its benefits to my current work environment. [...]

					
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					QCon SF 2008 – Technology Of Interest 
				

				
	November 26, 2008 |
	by Omar 


                                

					Part of the purpose of attending QCon was to get in synch with the tech community in regards to technology they have experimented with and have found use for. The following is a list of technology/frameworks/etc of interest that I took away from the conference:

CouchDB – Document oriented database

Memcached – Distributed Hashmap
MemcacheDB – A database [...]

					
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					QCon SF 2008 – Day 3 
				

				
	November 24, 2008 |
	by Omar 


                                

					I was pretty excited about the “Architectures you’ve always wondered about” stream for day 3 of the conference. It started off horribly. Dan Pritchett of MySpace was up first and basically took the change to showoff his personally little project that allows events from their thousands of servers to notify them what’s going on within [...]

					
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