Information Access Patterns
Anant Jhingran: what are the patterns that will emerge for information needs of Web 2.0 class of applications?
Much as we watched with amusement in the late 80’s and early 90’s while the PC’s reinvented mainframe operating systems, and thought to ourselves that any day now they will discover Virtual Machines; we seem to be in a period where the web is rediscovering Data Management, and thinking to ourselves that any day now they will discover Data Warehousing, though this time it will be without a fetish for Data Integrity as in the Web 2.0 world one size does not fit all.
N > 1
The underlying assumption, which I whole heartedly agree with, of Joe Armstrong’s algorithms is that any system that is scalable, fault-tolerant, and upgradable is composed of N nodes, where N > 1 . The problem with current data storage systems,...Excerpt from BitWorking | Joe Gregorio at