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Choosing NoSQL For The Right Reason

In Performance, Reliability, Scalability on 2011-05-13 at 09:42

Observing the NoSQL hype through the eyes of an SQL performance consultant is an interesting experience. It is, however, very hard to write about NoSQL because there are so many forms of it. After all, NoSQL is nothing more than a marketing term. A marketing term that works pretty well because it goes to the heart of many developers that struggle with SQL every day.

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About Software Quality

In Maintainability, Performance, Reliability, Scalability on 2010-06-12 at 13:00

You might have noticed that this blog never had a kickoff post that explains what this blog is about. Time has come to spend some words on the topic of software quality—as I see it—and how this blog covers some aspects of software quality.

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Working for the Community: hatools 2.14

In Portability, Reliability on 2010-03-16 at 08:36

This post is about my current work on release 2.14 of my most beloved OSS project: hatools. Just some observations, objectives, rants and an advertisement.

Scope

My scope for this release was rather limited: implement -v switches to hatimerun and halockrun to make them more communicative.

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