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Dominic Williams

Personal blog · ria101.wordpress.comprogrammingsystemsdata

Dominic Williams's personal blog at ria101.wordpress.com covers programming, systems and data. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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6HN people?
2010–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN links this blog for a post on moving from HBase to Cassandra. The other linked comment is a reply in a 'How to Get to Genius' thread and does not discuss this blog's writing.

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Occasionally useful posts about RIAs, Web scale computing & miscellanea

Most-linked posts?

  1. HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. simonw · 2010-03-01
    I have no experience with either, but here's a recent blog entry about moving from HBase to Cassandra: http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-wh...

    Comment linking /2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/

    on “Twitter Drops MySQL For Cassandra”
  2. jbellis · 2010-02-24

    Submitted HBase to Cassandra: why we switched as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. espeed · 2011-03-28
    1. It doesn't say Einstein was bad at math, it says his math skills aren't the reason he is considered a genius. 2. The Google TechTalk it references explains "insights from weak associations" in more detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M 3. If you don't have perspective, how do you know the thing you're focused on is of any importance? You can see practical examples of this everywhere: "One of my favou…

    Comment linking /2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/

    on “How to Get to Genius”
  4. bkudria · 2010-02-24

    Submitted HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. binomial · 2010-12-04

    Submitted HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. paran · 2010-11-15

    Submitted HBase vs Cassandra as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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