When processing data at a large scale, there are two characteristics that make a huge difference to my life. Restartability. When something goes wrong, being able to continue from where it stopped. In my opinion, this is more important than parallelism. There’s nothing as depressing as having to start from scratch every time. Think of it as the ability to save a game as opposed to starting from Level 1 in every life. ...
We were working with the financing subsidiary of a conglomerate. They had two divisions that gave loans for buying vehicles (mostly trucks, but also cars). One division used the direct channel. They had direct marketing agents (DMAs) who were paid a commission for getting the contract, and the division collected the monthly installments. The other used the dealer channel. The dealers would get the contract as well as collect the installments. ...
Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.
Daypop is out of disk space. Poor thing! Could we lend it some? I mean, could sites like Daypop work out a distributed architecture, using web services? Or using things like space drives? via Scripting News