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Building a better mortar board(medium.com)
1 points by garbados 12y ago|0 comments
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Coding for Eventual Consistency(cloudant.com)
2 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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Make Effortless the Creation of Great Things(cloudant.com)
7 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Cloudant-Python: Asynchronous CouchDB(cloudant.com)
13 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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by garbados 13y ago
You say you evaluated Cloudant and MongoDB, among others. Why did you decide on Cloudant?
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by garbados 13y ago
So many kudos to Dale Harvey for driving this incredible project. CouchDB's concept of replication is itself mind-blowing, but PouchDB bringing that to the {app,client}-layer opens up untold possibilities for robust, distributed system
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by garbados 13y ago
Yep! It replicates your remote database to a local store (IndexedDB on the browser, LevelDB in Node.js), so that losing connection doesn't stop your app. When you regain connection, it continues replicating as normal.
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by garbados 13y ago
Cloudant is a hosted, managed, distributed database as a service. We're based on CouchDB, but then added clustering, then full-text search, and -- coming soon -- geo-indexing :D BigCouch, and the clustering abilities that we're me
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by garbados 13y ago
Aye, which is why putting your administrative credentials in client-side JavaScript is an unspeakably bad idea. Instead, serve {client,user}-specific keys from the server on request, or let the user generate them through a signin process i
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by garbados 13y ago
> especially after having named their product PouchDB. Ah, PouchDB isn't our product. It's just something super awesome that we want to support and promote. In fact, it's built by Dale Harvey, who works at Mozilla. Disclos
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Forgot to prep for that investor pitch? Positioning Statement Generator(positioning-generator.herokuapp.com)
1 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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Jobot, a JS demo of Full-Text Search using Cloudant(cloudant.com)
3 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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by garbados 13y ago
No sweat; still figuring that out myself. So, http://schema.org/ stores schemas describing a significant subset of all things ever. It's intended to use to mark up HTML so crawlers can more intelligently understand wha
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Schema.org API(schema.maxthayer.org)
11 points by garbados 13y ago|4 comments
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by garbados 13y ago
Maybe, but they're all WIMPs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Detection
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by garbados 13y ago
tl;dr your system is more complicated than you realize, so scaling it will be more complicated than you think. Also, MongoDB's write lock is a pain in the ass.
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Starting with the Cloudant Accelerator Program: SpaceCraft, CouchDB & Redis(cloudant.com)
1 points by garbados 13y ago|0 comments
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by garbados 13y ago
Thanks! Re: callouts, duly noted for the next analysis.
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by garbados 13y ago
Author here. I had a blast writing this. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with it. I'm constantly amazed by the compassion of the tech community. If you spot anything you want fixed, or if you just want to check out the source code
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Show HN: FreeSpace, tool to keep your Gmail from running out of space(freespaceapp.com)
3 points by garbados 14y ago|0 comments