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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:15:54 GMT

Link: http://highscalability.com/how-i-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-using-lot-disk-space-scale

Drop tables

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:37:06 GMT

A mom’s exploits, on XKCD.

Link: http://xkcd.com/327/

Flickr: Camera Finder

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:49:55 GMT

Flickr takes its camera use data and builds a database of popular cameras complete with graphs showing the rise and fall of various types. Awesome stuff.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

bloglines and memeorandum don't bother with databases

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:26 GMT

Flatfiles are enough for them

Link: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/database_war_stories_2_bloglin.html

How to set up a load-balanced MySQL cluster

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:34 GMT

High-performance, database-serving goodness

Link: http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian

Ten of the biggest mistakes developers make with databases

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

Effective SQL can absolutely make or break your apps

Link: http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3589351