Database stuff First I’ll describe the database that backs the service. PostGIS database backend Here is how to make a simple table in PostgreSQL, that can store geo-tagged “observations”. It uses a hstore type for key-value pairs and a geography…
The Agency for Digitisation in Denmark has just published their agenda for publication of so called “Basic Data”. The following page is in english: Good Basic Data for Everyone – a Driver for Growth and Efficiency
An interview with DiDio by Karen Guglielmo, executive editor at SearchCIO-Midmarket.com. (my local copy)
Below is an interview with Werner Vogels, CTO@AWS. (my local copy). First some quotes: “Ultimately developers don’t care about SOAP and REST, as long as the data is delivered. You don’t need to buy into some big revolutionary approach”…
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As a was lying on my back in the University park to day, resting a bit between reading papers (more on that later), I looked up at a pine tree and asked myself a very computer sciencey question. How does…
Warning: This is work in progress, so this post will be updated TODO: Make a table of the file systems mentioned e.g. in CRUSH paper (related work section). Design space A subset of properties that can considered when designing a…
Today I’m reading about the PNUTS distributed database that was developed by Yahoo. I’m giving the PNUTS paper pass 1:3, and reading some background material I found on highscalability about the database. The paper: PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform…
I’m keeping public track of what I read. Today I read three papers using the three pass method. First pass I did a first pass over two papers on distributed file systems. Both papers are by authors Sage A. Weil,…
Slides GWR_Presentation.pdf Articles MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-006.pdf mennis_cj06.pdf