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I’m taking a trip to Boston between August 26th and August 29th.

I’m taking a trip to Cary between August 21st and August 25th.

The biggest thing in web apps since “rails can’t scale” is this idea that “your rdbms doesn’t scale.” This has gone so far as to be dubbed the coming of age for “nosql” with lots of blog posts and even a meetup. Indeed, there are many promising key-value stores, distributed key-value stores, document oriented dbs, and column oriented db projects on the radar. This is *definitely* a great thing for the web application scene and this level of variety will definitely open doors for organizations large and small in the near and long term.

However, along with these great tools, an attitude that “the rdbms is dead” has popped up, and while that may be true in the long run, in the short term, it’s definitely premature.

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I start a lot of projects. More than I’d like to admit. I finish and deploy very few, but I like cranking out the first iteration of an app in a weekend. Sometimes I do it just to learn some new feature, or try out an architecture idea. I don’t like to do this in the context of whatever existing app I’m working on, because I don’t want any baggage of whatever I was thinking last week. Last week is too long ago.

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