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24 pointszgoldberg10y ago8 comments

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These are actually quite good. I was expecting some cargo cult Agile related nonsense "always do 100% test coverage, blah blah".

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Thanks!

kylnew10y ago

I'm down with "All (ok most) programming languages are simultaneously good and bad". I assumed it would go on to discuss Javascript, but nope. Which really goes to show how true the statement is.

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Ah! Good point! A complete brainfart on my end. Definitely should've included javascript as an example.

bradhe10y ago

> * Key Value Stores Redis / Memcache

> * No-SQL land: MongoDB/Cassandra etc.

> * “Traditional” Schema’d SQL: Oracle/Postgres/MySQL/Amazon RDS Etc.

> * Hosted DBs: AWS RDS / DynamoDB / AppEngine Datastore

> * Heavy lifting: Amazon MR / Hadoop (Hive/Pig) / Cloudera / Google Big Query

> * Batshit crazy stuff: Erlang’s Mnesia, iOS’s Core Data

Cringeworthy to be sure.

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Do you disagree with the point?

bradhe10y ago

1. "No-SQL land" - Most of those things are NoSQL databases? 2. ""Traditional" Schema'd SQL" - Amazon RDS isn't a database, and those are relational databases. 3. DynamoDB has effectively the same data model as Cassandra. 4. "Hadoop" isn't a database. Cloudera is a database vendor. EMR (what you call Amazon MR?) is Hadoop as a Service. 5. I don't even know what to say about the "batship crazy" thing.

Every data store has a model. Typically we classify them based on their model.

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collyw10y ago

These are actually quite good. I was expecting some cargo cult Agile related nonsense "always do 100% test coverage, blah blah".

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Thanks!

kylnew10y ago

I'm down with "All (ok most) programming languages are simultaneously good and bad". I assumed it would go on to discuss Javascript, but nope. Which really goes to show how true the statement is.

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Ah! Good point! A complete brainfart on my end. Definitely should've included javascript as an example.

bradhe10y ago

> * Key Value Stores Redis / Memcache

> * No-SQL land: MongoDB/Cassandra etc.

> * “Traditional” Schema’d SQL: Oracle/Postgres/MySQL/Amazon RDS Etc.

> * Hosted DBs: AWS RDS / DynamoDB / AppEngine Datastore

> * Heavy lifting: Amazon MR / Hadoop (Hive/Pig) / Cloudera / Google Big Query

> * Batshit crazy stuff: Erlang’s Mnesia, iOS’s Core Data

Cringeworthy to be sure.

zgoldbergOP10y ago

Do you disagree with the point?

bradhe10y ago

Every data store has a model. Typically we classify them based on their model.

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