A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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 …
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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 …
It’s with great sadness that I inform you that the HTML5 <time> element has been dropped, and replaced by a more generic – and thus less useful – <data> element. The pubdate attribute has been dropped completely, so there is now no simple way to indicate the publication date of a work. Goodbye HTML5 <time>, …