Last year, I covered a number of the so-called "Twitter protests" in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12). Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed many members of both ruling and revolting groups - Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya, Ben Ali in Tunisia, Saleh in Yemen, and
If you've ever worked under the hood with OTM, you'll know that there's some pretty serious normalization. As I recently explained, deleting a single order can involve traversing over a hundred tables. So, what does this network of table relationships look like? After some quick SQL and a few minutes in Gephi, we get
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In redis, every object is either a binary-safe string or collection thereof. Even if you're storing numbers from your client library or using the INCR/DECR counter within redis, the actual values are stored in memory as strings. In some cases, this may be fine; however, if you are storing many numbers, whole or decimal,
Part of blogging for myself is making notes about process that may or may not garner a wide audience. The first of these notes will cover the process to build, configure, and benchmark redis that I've put together. Building redis The first step is to obtain and build redis. Since I regularly use
In between writing the wrong year on documents, I've been reflecting on this blog. Specifically, I've wondered whether the frequency and content of the blog work for me. When I look at my workspace, it's clear that I've had no shortage of started posts; however, it's also clear that much of what I start
