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In our experience, sharding at the application level is to be avoided.

We implemented application level sharding a few years ago when we had 1Tb of data. We now have over 20Tb of data and application level business logic is killing us.

Our pain is not DB speed, but application complexity. All of our applications (backup, web, maintenance, archiving etc) all need the business logic to traverse the sharding set.

We are planning to move to DB level sharding in January (as part of a larger application and infrastructure refresh).

I am interested in seeing more open router firmware variants. If the open SSL debacle has thought us anything it is that more eyes on the code is better but alternative implementations are better.

Not wanting to play devils advocate tho...I was reading through a few academic journals on Coredemia and I came across this one from Ken Thompson: Reflections On Trusting Trust http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...

In the paper Ken looks into potential vulnerability in compliers. He shows a trivial way that code can be manipulated and a trojan house could be injected into code by a vulnerable complier. His point is that checking the source code is not enough.

Ps. I found out about Coredemia in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8061166

It is an interesting concept, however perhaps it is so lo-tech that it needs no discussion.

I use SuperPutty on my Windows PC to manage many putty sessions at a time...it is a little clunky, however it is better than having putty open 5 or 10 times.

I am a member of the AMQP Working Group and the OASIS AMQP Member Section. Last month we released the AMQP 1.0 protocol. This is something that we are really passionate about.

The one thing that has really held back the broad adoption of AMQP is the delay behind the release of the 1.0 version of the protocol. Now that we have this under our belt we need implementers such as RabbitMQ, StormMQ, Microsoft, INETCO etc to add support for AMQP 1.0. Finally, we need native AMQP clients installed by default and widely supported by OS and hardware developers, put simply, we need the full participation of the main operating system stack suppliers such as Microsoft and Redhat.

Luckily enough, both RedHat and Microsoft are members of the AMQP Working Group. I assume that they will release native clients and thus pave the way for broad adoption. It is the growth of pervasive AMQP clients and a strong and healthy developer community that will drive adoption and general acceptance of AMQP.

While this is an interesting article, the title is a little misleading.

The use of that particular technology could be used to warn people of a problem, but only after the initial fact. This would be useful to warn people of a tsunami or a nuclear disaster, however this technology would not warn people that an earthquake was coming....that would be the holy grail of earthquake warning systems.

The team behind SpringBoard ran the Difference Engine for a few sessions (http://thedifferenceengine.eu) which due to the lack of public sector funding is closing this year.

Unlike The Difference Engine, SpringBoard has private sector funding. My understanding is that this is the first intake for SpringBoard.

Myspace has been confined to the "special needs" area of the interned for quite a while, however it's a shame that this news article has come out as it's aparently in advance of an official notice that effects the lives of 600 people.

I don't see how the public interest in this trumps the lack of respect to the employees. Shame.

I prefer the subdomain method. It keeps things separate. In our case it allows me to run our custom CMS for our website and separate Wordpress instance for our blog...no interdependencies of any type.

YMMV.

Don't be concerned with immigration issues for a while and leave your business registration and taxation status in the UK.

Sort out all the paperwork if or when you decide to settle down...in the meantime stay nimble, have fun and travel.

Go for it! I cant comment on the salary package but it sounds like a life changing opportunity. Cease the day, fly the roost, grasp the nettle!

Ok...I will go first ;)

One of our clients is using a MQ to link a fleet of 550 electric vehicles to a head office app that checks for vehicle service issues.

This is built on Eucalyptus (www.eucalyptus.com) the open source cloud application.

AWS instances don't have persistent storage...if your server crashes you loose your data, the changes to your OS and even your IP.

AWS is great, but you can't compare the AWS instances with other VPS or Dedicated offerings.

Seriously, after all these years aren't we past this repetitive question?

I can see so many parallels in this story and how SuperMondays.org was setup....it's interesting that the first follower is so important.

I really like how he is using his skills to research and try to better one of the strongest GNU tools...this guy is smart, quirky and full of balls.

Next stop awk!

A phrase with the words sledgehammer and nut comes to mind.

Obviously somebody was a naughty boy, but what about the other users of the server?

It's true I fear...the big social networks (Facebook, Twitter and linkedin) all allow both name and profile pic as public even when you make your profile private.

Spidering this data would build an amazing database for facial recognition. This is actually a very well developed technology...if you don't believe this check out the Google Picasa app..it's rather concerningly good at facial recognition.

I knew about this problem before I bought my iPhone 4, I didn't care then and I care less now.

The iPhone is the best tech device I own. It helps me run my life by managing my diary, email and contacts with a easy to use interface that my old blackberry could never aspire to.

It rocks and I don't care if I loose one call in every 50...it's a small price to pay.

What a load if crap.

They implement a law to prevent snooping by insisting that all equipment is checked by labs in the US, Canada or Israel!

The US and Israel have the biggest spy networks in the world....I know that there are other countries or corporations out there that would love a nugget of Indian technology...but seriously? It the equipment didn't have spyware before it was sent it has a bloody good chance of doing so when it comes back!

I dont mean this to be patronising, but this is less to do with code and more to do with a work motivation. Let me explain.

Every day is different and some days I code because I love it, some days because Iam good at it, and some days I absolutely hate to code. Regardless of what mood I am in I think of the money....code pays my bills, I use this fact to focus my attention ;)

I listen to various stuff, but at least once a month I listen to Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield...a pure classic!

They just take messages and pass the details to me by email, SMS or in emergencies they call me.

They have a great system. My calls (around 5 a day) are usually answered by the same lady. She answers calls for around 30-40 other companies so she cant remember individual callers. She uses caller ID and software on her PC prompt her. So for regular callers she can say "hi Pete, how are you? How are the kids? Did you like your holiday? The reception is much better tis time....let me try to put you through to the support department....".

Fantastic!

Collecting the money from customers is often a challenge. You need to be friendly with your customers so they continue to order, but you also need to be firm so that you get paid in a timely manner.... Its a hard balance.

I know a small business owner who has a mythical staff member called Tony. Tony collects the money by being a pitbul...this is very successful as it allows the company owner to do what he does best and he leaves the mythical Tony to chase the money.

The point he is making is that people were stealing his games...he was loosing traffic to thieves....he seemed unable to stop this so he turned the problem into a positive.

It looks like a honeypot on steroids!

It's not all about saving money. Customers want to feel that you are successful before they Buy your services... So spend money and look successful when it matters.

I use a professional call answering firm to answer my calls, it's not cheap but it makes my business look bigger than it is.

Pay to pitch events are evil, they are a business source for the event management team and add no value to the entrepreneur or the investor as there is no filter on quality....the best way to run pitch events is for the event management team to engage with entrepreneurs and to filter on quality.... They can't be invcentivised by entrance fees!!!