MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle

What does "Scale" even mean in the context of databases? When talking about scaling, people have jumped to the vendor-induced conclusion that: SQL doesn't scaleNoSQL scales It is very obvious that NoSQL vendors make such claims. It has also been interesting that many NoSQL consumers made such claims, even if they probably confused SQL in … Continue reading MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle

Twitter and the JVM

Here's an interesting read about Twitter and why they had chosen to migrate to the JVM for scalability. A must-read for everyone working on Java, Scala, or other JVM languages: http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2013/08/01/theres-java-in-your-tweets/