Looking to the future with Cassandra

Highly interesting article on Digg The Blog: Digg implemented their new badges feature in Cassandra, a distributed, structured key-value store also used at Facebook. — “When an item is dugg, we asynchronously populate Cassandra. This job fetches the list of followers of the digging user, and places one column in each of their buckets. This …

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

“Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS gives you access to the …

Introducing Mozilla Raindrop

Mozilla Raindrop, a new Mozilla project in the making which – as far as I have read/watched (watch the vids) – is a cross communications systems / services aggregator: fetch messages from mail, twitter, facebook, RSS, etc. and show them in one interface. In a way it reminds me of fever° along with some Gmail …

Singletasking

When using the computer at home, I never seem to do anything productive – just follow an endless cycle of checking my feed reader, my e-mail, Twitter, and flicking through my open tabs. Sure, I get things done, but slowly, and piecemeal. My concentration usually feels scattered, my focus divided, my brain like it’s trying …