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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

I think it’s absolutely fine to use the local memory space or filesystem as a local cache of data that spans transactions so long as that doesn’t introduce stickiness, consistency or stale data issues. We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.) Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

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