Monthly Archives November 2008

Very simple benchmarking

I’ve used CouchDB for a project at work and now I’m just seeing opportunities for using it everywhere. At the moment I’m just starting out a new project (more on that later) and I think CouchDB just fits the bill (lots of reads, high availability, etc.) So, how about I benchmark CouchDB first and see [...]

Erlang: another step forward

Some time ago I posted here that I was trying to learn Erlang. My first encounter with the language had been quite a number of years back and thanks to a dear friend who was my teacher at the time and I must admit it hadn’t been the happiest of all my encounters.
It seems to [...]