Monthly Archives: June 2010
HAvroBase: a searchable, evolvable entity store on top of HBase and Solr
Building out a social consumer internet product that could change quickly and evolve over time puts special requirements on the underlying data store. You need to be prepared for scale but not investing too much too early, your business may … Continue reading
Static-typing is a powerful metadata database, exploit it!
Today someone decided to pretend they knew something about how a modern statically typed language developer works. Perhaps they are big emacs fans or something because they felt that static-types leading to autocomplete in an IDE was somehow a feature … Continue reading
Building the ideal web application template engine
A month and a half ago I had put out a call for what I was calling the ‘ideal web application template engine‘ along with a list of requirements that I thought would be present in such a system. Since … Continue reading