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“In my CFO & Business Development responsibilities at pearltrees, I'm interested in reliable Web specific funding data but it's hard to find. Usually, Web start-ups are included in broader categories.  Actually, I haven't found any comprehensive funding analysis focusing on source...

“You mentioned the index ordering gotcha. If you have multiple composite indexes (probably most common), you might get more mileage out of the Resource::index method, which allows for something like this: index [:id, :last_name] index [:id, :first_name, :last_name, :bio] Which more...

“Fixing these two misfeatures is exactly the purpose of this article. Using features introduced in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1, it is possible to build a replication system where all nodes act as master and slave at the same time, with source...

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

article describes the techniques used by SQLite to create the illusion of atomic commit.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy open source database company MySQL AB for about $1 billion, $800 million of that in cash.

The CouchDB development team is proud to announce CouchDB version 0.7.0 is now available at http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/downloads/list.

In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all more...

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides more...