Posts tagged with: "nosql"

I've never read Amazon's Dynamo paper. I've also never had the opportunity to work with Cassandra or SimpleDB, but when Amazon announced DynamoDB I thought it was time to take a little bit of time to learn what it was just in case it was super-useful. I thought I'd share a few of my findings.

Disclaimer: I'm completely new to this style of NoSQL system and may well in fact be misusing it in places. Feel free to give me some free education if I'm doing something horrendous below.

Every Friday at 4:00 pm, the Intridea team takes pause from the pressing tasks we are immersed in. For an hour we forget about open tickets, bug fixes, running tests, reading code, and writing emails. From different parts of the country we pick up the phone and join one another in what we call, “Coffee Hour.”