Author Jeremiah Peschka

What I’m Reading – 2010-09-10 Edition

ISO Time Formatting Standards Read it. Love it. Use it.
Reducing Bloat Without Locking Just in case you wanted to know all about ghost record clean up in PostgreSQL land.
Links and Link Walking Links are crazy awesome fun and make riak a wonderful thing to behold. BEHOLD THE LINKS!
Cassandra Data Model Cheat Sheet New terminology is [...]

Moving Away From Relational Storage – Introduction

Don’t. Fooled you, didn’t I?
If you’re already using a relational database, keep using it. If it’s scaling just fine with your hardware and workload, keep using it. If you aren’t running into any complexity problems, keep using it.
There’s no reason to change the way you’re storing your data just because you read an article about [...]

…And This Is Why I Love Open Source Software

From the daily Riak Recap:
10) So check this out:
At 17:40 yesterday, solidsnack asked, “Does Riak support HTTPS?”
At 22:28, benblack made it work —>
https://gist.github.com/4413fafc14fc18696643
The repo for his branch is here —> http://github.com/b/riak/tree/https
A user requested SSL support. 4 hours and 40 minutes later, it was implemented and checked in to source control. It will probably be [...]

Chalk Talk 2010 – It’s not your Senior DBA’s Chalk Talk

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Chalk Talk sessions at the PASS Community Summit. These sessions are shorter, 40 minute sessions, and they happen in the vendor expo hall at the Summit. In the past, this has been a Microsoft sponsored event with Microsoft sponsored speakers. These were discussion focused sessions – a [...]

Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03

Just in case you want to live vicariously through my reading choices, here are some of the things that I found interesting this week when I should have been doing my job.
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An Illustrated Guide to the PostgreSQL Buffer Cache – Just in case you were wondering how a buffer cache works in a database. Because, [...]