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The Technology Behind Convore

Eric Florenzano - February 16, 2011

We launched Convore last week, and the first question developers tend to ask when they find Convore is “what technology powers this site?” It is asked so often, in fact, that we have started to copy and paste the same short response again and again.…

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How do we kick our synchronous addiction?

Eric Florenzano - February 09, 2010

Asynchronous programming is superior both in memory usage and in overall throughput when compared to synchronous programming . We’ve known this fact for years. If we look at Django or Ruby on Rails, arguably the two most promising new web application frameworks to emerge in…

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My Thoughts on NoSQL

Eric Florenzano - July 21, 2009

Over the past few years, relational databases have fallen out of favor for a number of influential people in our industry. Before weighing in on that, however, I’d like to give my executive summary of the events leading up to this movement: In the late…

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2008 in Review & 2009 Goals

Eric Florenzano - January 02, 2009

Yesterday was the day of “2008 in review” posts. I really enjoyed reading over what people had accomplished during the year, and what they planned on doing in the new year. I hadn’t planned on writing this post, but for some reason I’m doing it…

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It’s been a wild ride

Eric Florenzano - November 30, 2008

This post is my final post in the blog-post-per-day challenge. There have been days when I really didn’t want to blog (resulting in posts like this), and there have been days where I was excited about what I was writing about and spent a lot…

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Why CouchDB Rocks

Eric Florenzano - November 29, 2008

Last week I wrote an article called Why CouchDB Sucks, which many people correctly said should have been called “What CouchDB Sucks at Doing”. Nearly everyone pointed out that it was not designed to do the things that I was mentioning in the article. This…

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Trying to Start a Programming Meme

Eric Florenzano - November 25, 2008

I’ve never tried to start a meme before, but since I don’t really have anything great to post about, I’d like to try to start one. I think this one could be particularly fun because it encourages implementation of a basic program in many different…

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Why CouchDB Sucks

Eric Florenzano - November 23, 2008

CouchDB really sucks at doing some things. That should come as no surprise, as every technology has its advantages and its drawbacks. The thing is, when a new technology comes out that looks really promising and cool, everyone writes about all of its advantages, and…

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Are pure client-side web apps the wave of the future?

Eric Florenzano - November 21, 2008

It seems that the world of computing is always oscillating between offloading more work to the server, and offloading more work to the client. In the very early days of dumb terminals, we had most of the actual computation being done on big mainframes. Then…

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