Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis

At Instagram, they’re using Redis (comparable to Memcached, but with more options) to map photoIds to userIds. After tweaking their setup — by using Redis hashes (dictionaries that are can be encoded in memory very efficiently) — in Redis, they’ve brought memory usage down from 70MB to 16MB to store 1,000,000 records. While prototyping this …

Kinect Effect

See the future possibilities of Kinect that go beyond the expected, into truly amazing things that people around the world are beginning to imagine. The briliant version of Where is my mind (Originally The Pixies) by Vitamin String Quartet does it for me. via teusje UPDATE 2011.11.01 Included mention of cover artist + YouTube clip …