TweetDatabases are all about I/O speed. If you believe that 20% of the data is 80% of the queries, then any database over five times RAM is too large to be fast. In most businesses data over a year old shouldn’t matter. It shouldn’t be part of the 20%. For OLTP, that’s almost true except…
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Cupcakes instead of Layer Cakes and Mocks for Integration Testing
TweetAt every company I’ve ever worked at we needed more automated tests. The problem is that you can only do so much with Unit Tests in Cloud/Enterprise development. You need “integration tests”, but those become a huge pain in the ass. Some people point to…
Your Mileage May Vary: Why I bought a Volt
TweetSo it was time to replace my much loved Honda CR-V. I’d owned it almost 12 years, I’d put 141,000 miles on it, but it had reached that age where there was going to be a succession of little hassles with it. It was a…
Apple should offer a public cloud
Tweet Apple needs to become a public cloud provider. This will be an ambitious undertaking because frankly, they’re very far behind Amazon. But if they did so, it would be…
To Office for IPad or not to Office for iPad
Tweet So there were rumors this week that Microsoft was going to ship a version of Office for iPad. I have no opinion one way or another whether they will…
Why iBook Author is Ho-Hum
TweetSo professionally, this was an interesting week for me. Wednesday, Chegg shipped their new eReader which is the project I’ve been working on since August. It’s HTML5, and its a…