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	<description>Making the world better, one byte at a time.</description>
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		<title>I Love You, But&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love programming.  I love thinking about algorithms and data strucures.  I love writing code, rearranging code, talking about code.  I even love testing and debugging and documenting code.  (This is not to say I do all of these things as consistently as I can.  There are still only 24 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=3026</link>
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		<title>How *NOT* to Lose Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I described several common data-loss scenarios and took people to task for what I feel is a very unbalanced view of the problem space.  It would be entirely fair for someone to say that it would be even more constructive for me to explain some ways to avoid those problems, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=3020</link>
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		<title>How To Lose Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, I&#8217;ve been getting increasingly annoyed at a lot of the flak that has been directed toward MongoDB over data-protection issues.  I&#8217;m certainly no big fan of systems that treat memory as primary storage (with or without periodic flushes to disk) instead of a cache or buffer for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=3005</link>
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		<title>Pomegranate First Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pomegranate is a new distributed filesystem, apparently oriented toward serving many small files efficiently (thanks to @al3xandru for the link).  Here are some fairly disconnected thoughts/impressions.

The HS article says that &#8220;Pomegranate should be the first file system that is built over tabular storage&#8221; but that&#8217;s not really accurate.  For one thing, Pomegranate is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=3007</link>
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		<title>The Oracle/Google Patents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are commenting on the Oracle/Google suit without having looked at the patents involved.  That&#8217;s a bad idea, guaranteed to yield incorrect conclusions.  For reference, here are the ones actually mentioned in the formal complaint . . . and yes, I did enjoy looking these up on Google.

6125447: Protection domains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=3000</link>
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		<title>NoSQL and Cloud Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, most people interested in NoSQL and cloud storage and so on has probably seen the story of go-derper, which demonstrates two things.

Memcached has no security of its own.
Many people deploy memcached to be generally accessible.

Obviously, this is a recipe for disaster.  Less obviously, the problem is hardly limited to memcached.  Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2988</link>
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		<title>Spread of a Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it fascinating how links get distributed over time.  Here&#8217;s an example involving the amazing pencil-tip sculptures by Dalton Ghetti,and the times I&#8217;ve been presented with the same link in Google Reader.

Dark Roasted Blend on July 16
BoingBoing on August 1
Damn Cool Pics on August 2
Inhabitat on August 6

I predict that it will show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2985</link>
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		<title>Language Specific Package Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many people I&#8217;ve talked to IRL probably know, I really hate language-specific package managers.  Java has several, Python/Ruby/Erlang etc. each have their own, etc.  I totally understand the temptation.  I know it&#8217;s not all about NIH Syndrome (though some is); some of it&#8217;s about Getting Stuff Done as well.  Consider [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2980</link>
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		<title>Server Design Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About eight years ago, I wrote a series of posts about server design, which I then combined into one post.  That was also a time when debates were raging about multi-threaded vs. event-based programming models, about the benefits and drawbacks of TCP, etc.  For a long time, my posts on those subjects constituted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2973</link>
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		<title>Bad Presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presentations are the bane of the modern engineer&#8217;s existence.  If you&#8217;re watching a presentation then it means you&#8217;re in a meeting, which is already something most of us don&#8217;t enjoy, and even worse it means you&#8217;re in a kind of meeting (or part of a meeting) that&#8217;s only minimally interactive.  If you&#8217;re giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2967</link>
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