Re: CouchDB presentation in Portland tonight

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Hallett
In case anybody is interested I put some notes from my CouchDB talk online http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby/t/1ddf27e0e51b7f75. These include some brief notes on three high-level interfaces to CouchDB for Ruby: CouchPotato, CouchRest::ExtendedDocument, and CouchFoo. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at

CouchDB presentation in Portland tonight

2009-09-01 Thread Jesse Hallett
I will be giving a presentation on CouchDB tonight at the Portland Ruby Brigade Meeting, which runs from 7-9pm at Robert Half Technology, 222 SW Columbia St, Portland, OR http://calagator.org/events/1250457540. If there are any folks on the list who are in Portland and are interested, I would be

Re: CouchDB presentation in Portland tonight

2009-09-01 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Cool, good luck! :) If you need some fuel on the number thing: http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html Cheers Jan -- On 1 Sep 2009, at 17:50, Jesse Hallett wrote: I will

Re: CouchDB presentation in Portland tonight

2009-09-01 Thread Jesse Hallett
Thanks Jan! I suspected that the slower performance from CouchDB was caused by a combination of HTTP latency and frequent disk flushes. Your articles help give me the big picture of those tradeoffs. I will definitely emphasize CouchDB's fault tolerance and distributability tonight. On Tue, Sep