Archive for October, 2009

Database sharding – when and how we implement

Thursday, October 15, 2009 17:47 7 Comments

I started building an application for the education system and it will have to use huge amounts of data.
Some of the issues I have to address are size of the database, real-time reporting and speed of access to the database. Considering this aspects I started looking into database sharding so here are my first conclusions, [...]

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Social shopping evolves with Plurchase

Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:19 1 Comment

I was reading today on TechCrunch about the launch of Plurchase, a social shopping application that lets you share your online shopping experience with your friends.
The concept is not new but Plurchase does a good job integrating its tool in the shops with zero cost of implementation for the shop owner.
Right now, Plurchase only supports [...]

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Hello Readers

Friday, October 9, 2009 22:22 No Comments

It may seem strange to you seeing that I started a blog in English considering I already have my Romanian blog (danielbuca.ro).
I started writing on this blog because I have the feeling that there is a lot of information and advices that I could share with you and it would be a waste to keep [...]

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