It's always interesting to read MySQL haters. I think they don't really get what Real People use it for. There are tons of applications that just want to store structured data and retrieve it quickly and these people miss that. At least for LJ, the serious (as in not scalably fixable by throwing more hardware it at) bottlenecks were the databases, so having them as stupid and fast as possible was crucial; if anything, we migrated the SQL to less fancy queries over time -- removing e.g. SORT BYs from slow queries -- and so having the database support subselects, transactions, etc. was ultimately uninteresting.
mysql haters
It's always interesting to read MySQL haters. I think they don't really get what Real People use it for. There are tons of applications that just want to store structured data and retrieve it quickly and these people miss that. At least for LJ, the serious (as in not scalably fixable by throwing more hardware it at) bottlenecks were the databases, so having them as stupid and fast as possible was crucial; if anything, we migrated the SQL to less fancy queries over time -- removing e.g. SORT BYs from slow queries -- and so having the database support subselects, transactions, etc. was ultimately uninteresting.
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your vcs sucks
I've been hacking on some Haskell stuff lately that's all managed in darcs and it's reminded me of an observation I made over two years ago now (see…
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perl people, explain your language to me
Every time I use perl I feel mildly positive about it right up until I encounter CPAN. I've never managed to make CPAN work, despite the multitude of…
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dns attack of doom
If I've learned anything from the new Kaminsky DNS attack, it's that if you want to keep something a secret while disclosing to a trusted subset of…