Author: Markus Perdrizat
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Writing A Little Language in PowerShell for Graphviz
Writing A Little Language in PowerShell for Graphviz: A key strength to PowerShell is the ability to compose things quickly and cheaply to see if the rabbit hole is worth exploring further. One such use is abstracting away the complexities/ceremonies of textual formats such as the dot language for Graphviz. I have to try that out!
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MySQL version history, and NoSQL
MySQL version history: I’ve created a graph about the MySQL version history. It’s mysql-graph-history on github. Please let me know if this is correct or if I’m forgetting some versions. And while we’re talking about MySQL, here’s Monty Widenius About NoSQL, Big Data, and Obvioulsy MySQL and MariaDB, and Mr myNoSQL is tearing into some…
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Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage
Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage: You hear a lot these days in networking circles about “software defined networks. Lyatiss isn’t French for IT’s holy grail, but maybe it should be: Lyatiss, a startup that came out of a French research consortium wants to create a new communication layer…
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Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?
Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?: NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database. NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious. Monash has a less favorable…
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Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter
Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter: Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you’re basically doing the same thing as everybody else.…
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How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail: Newegg’s Lee Cheng: Patent trolling is based upon deficiencies in a critical but underdeveloped area of the law. The faster we drive these cases to verdict—and through appeal, and also get legislative reform on track—the faster our economy will be competitive in this critical…
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Getting Your Desktop Back – The (Almost) Definitive Guide
Getting Your Desktop Back – The (Almost) Definitive Guide: Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming “No, no, no, no, don’t do it!”, you did it anyway. You just had to click “that” button. The one that should have been big and red and marked “SELF DESTRUCT”. And now your computer’s buggered. Just…
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When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely!
When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely. ACID and NewSQL databases rarely provide true ACID guarantees by default, if they are supported at all Not even Oracle or DB2 provide full ACID (in distributed scenarios at least).
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