[bcc kieran] On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Zooko O'Whielacronx At Work wrote:
> We had a Hack Fest as advertised on Friday, December 14. Ryan and Kieren > (sp?) showed up at the appointed time of five o'clock, but nobody else did. > It was too bad that there wasn't an audience yet assembled to see Ryan's > presentation on db sharding, but on the other hand the champagne went eh, that talk is well worn, and it's not anything you all don't already know. it's available here, for posterity, with an extra slide on hibernate shards. http://snarfed.org/space/scaling_data_on_the_cheap.html i'm glad to hear the hack fest picked up later. before we left, we did talk about amazon's simpledb for a bit, which was much more interesting than sharding dbs, and inspired me to throw together a quick writeup: http://snarfed.org/space/amazon+simpledb+thoughts it's almost certainly based on amazon's dynamo, a DHT that was mentioned here a while back. personally, i'm more intrigued in the fact that the interface is based on tuplespaces, but that's just me. :P -Ryan p.s. thursday generally works better for me too. -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
