Northscale, an organization formed by leaders of memcached open source project, today launched a couple of interesting products. The first one is an enhanced distribution of standard opensource memcached server which also does “secure multi-tenancy, dynamic cluster scaling and browser-based administration”. The second product is “Membase server” is a distributed key-value datastore build on top [...]

Reddit has a very interesting post about what not to do when trying to build a scalable system. While the error is tragic, I think its an excellent design mistakes to learn from. Though the post lacked detailed technical report, we might be able to recreate what happened. They mentioned they are using MemcacheDB datastore, [...]

Lots of interesting updates today. But would like to first mention the fantastic work Cloud computing group at UCSB are doing to make appengine framework more open. They have done significant work at making appscale “work” with different kinds of data sources including HBase, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, Hypertable and Mysql and MemcacheDB. Appscale is actively [...]