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I think you missed the reference. If you haven't seen it before, it's hilarious.

But is /dev/null web-scale?: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/mongo-db-is-web-scale :-)

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/mongo-db-is-web-scale

Hmmmm....I was wondering about that too. Maybe they used xtranormal to hide the identity of the speaker.

This calls to mind Corey Doctorow's short story "Printcrime".

Scripted, of course...

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12447772/xtranormal-vs-cleverbot

Grab 'em while they're still there -- you can grab with your favorite browser or wget:

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part deux

Grab 'em while they're still there -- you can grab with your favorite browser or wget:

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part deux

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11622514/score-parody-3

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11599075/score-parody-part-deux

Also, the username(s) used by the uploader were "MrFuddlesticks" (not fiddlesticks) and "whothehellispenny". It looks like the rest of the videos have already been deleted (couldn't find any kind of search feature on xtranormal).

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11622514/score-parody-3

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11599075/score-parody-part-deux

Also, the username(s) used by the uploader were "MrFuddlesticks" (not fiddlesticks) and "whothehellispenny". It looks like the rest of the videos have already been deleted (couldn't find any kind of search feature on xtranormal).

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/mongo-db-is-web-scale

If you are curious about the benefits of using MongoDB there is a good explanation here.

Intersting article.

This is a funny Q&A session on Mongo DB which raises a good point.

Mongo is web scale.

Mongo is web scale.

Programming has become a commodity, much like operating systems and software.

As such, I expect demand, on a per-capita basis, to slide, as the low end (for example, the web monkey) is completely supplanted by tools anyone can use to make a web site, and the middle sees increasing pressure due to the excess capacity after all those "monkey jobs", whether web or whatever, go bye-bye.

Just as you don't need any programming skills to set up and run a web site now, in the future you won't need any programming skills to make all sorts of other content, such as animated videos and games (see http://www.xtranormal.com/ as an example for video animations)

Relevant supporting video.

That being said, be careful of One/No True Scotsman arguments, such as "The only people who don't like SQL are those that don't understand databases."

MONGO IS WEB SCALE

Agreed, we have massive sites serving millions of requests a day using Open Source relational databases and yet it seems everyone wants to use NoSQL because it's the hip new thing.

Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033

A million requests per day translates to 11.5 requests per second. That's a pretty trivial amount of traffic. A massive site like Facebook is probably serving about 4 orders-of-magnitude more requests that that.

Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033

Thank you for posting that. I'm so sick of the NoSQL shit. Learn to design schemas.

Agreed, we have massive sites serving millions of requests a day using Open Source relational databases and yet it seems everyone wants to use NoSQL because it's the hip new thing.

Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7011357/

But Postgres is not web scale. MongoDB however is.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6235751

It's popular with people paranoid about "liberal academia" http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090411194525621