Database

If you had a supercar - say, one costing a quarter million bucks - you could get this service from some insurers (you phoned them when you started driving the car and phoned again when you stopped), but it wasn’t practical for most people. Now Norwich Union in the UK is offering it - [...]

You database geeks - you think you have problems with your database’s performance - how’d you like to be the DB admin at MySpace? They went from startup in 2003 to 140 million user accounts in 2007. How’d you like to administer a system that serves 40 billion page views a month (more [...]