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Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per production release as the final step in...

0 replies - 3537 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are involved in e-commerce, have a...

0 replies - 3508 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

CouchDB's Side of the Ubuntu One Story

Jan Lehnardt, the chairman of the Apache CouchDB PMC, stepped in to defend the NoSQL store against any misconceptions about removal announcement by...

0 replies - 4293 views - 12/01/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

A Look at the NoSQL Landscape

Take a look at the current landscape of NoSQL stores and figure out why you might need NoSQL in this recent podcast where Bruce Elgort talks with Mark...

1 replies - 5067 views - 12/01/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

NoSQL for us RDBMS folks - MongoDB 101

As you probably know, I have been doing RDBMS work for many years, some 25+ years by now. At Recorded Future I am the database architect, and although an...

1 replies - 5109 views - 12/01/11 by Anders Karlsson in Articles

How DataSift is Datamining 120K Tweets Per Second

Attention architectural gurus!  Get ready to learn about how one company puts together its amazing datamining architecture, and hopefully you'll also walk...

1 replies - 7794 views - 11/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Some Cassandra Gotchas

Here are some points to keep in mind when working with Cassandra. Have to use ordered partitioner if you want row keys in sorted order. Be aware...

1 replies - 3633 views - 11/30/11 by Buddhika Chamith in Articles

Basic Mistakes in Database Testing

There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are understood in many different...

9 replies - 14107 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Why we chose Chef over Puppet at CustomInk

Not unlike most technology choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark...

1 replies - 6924 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

RE: Clean Architecture

Decoupling application code from technology *is* good, but... Clean Architecture is a follow-up post by Uncle Bob to...

5 replies - 6560 views - 11/28/11 by Simon Brown in Articles

A Reliable, Scalable, and (Kinda) Cheap Cloud Hosting Architecture for MongoDB

I did a talk at the Austin NoSQL group about hosting MongoDB in EC2, and I...

1 replies - 4917 views - 11/25/11 by Cody Powell in Articles

Don’t Use MongoDB?

“Little children, don’t go play in Africa … giant crocodiles are waiting to eat you!” – a popular Russian song. ...

1 replies - 6899 views - 11/18/11 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Simple CRUD with MongoDB

When I meet a new technology, I like to experience it "just as it comes". I'm happy at the command line and I like to type actual commands and...

1 replies - 5771 views - 11/18/11 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles

Solr Power FTW: Powering NoSQL the World Over

Pop quiz!  Can you answer the following questions off the top of your head?  If so, stop reading after the questions and show off your Solr sagacity and your...

0 replies - 3274 views - 11/18/11 by David Pell in Articles

Stick a MongoDB on that OpenShift Cloud

Now that the latest release of OpenShift Flex has a much simpler method for running a NoSQL server, we're going to look at a tutorial by Mark Atwood that takes...

1 replies - 4560 views - 11/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles