Re: Philly Lambda December Meeting

[Randy Schmidt <me@r38y.com>]

Yes! It was awesome, much thanks!

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn
<michael.bevilacqualinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the presentation Angel,
>
> Thanks,
> MBL
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Angel <delagoya@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All many thanks for the opportunity to present CouchDB. As expected
>> from this group, a few errors where pointed out to me:
>>
>> #1 :
>>
>> MVCC is not special to Couch, and in fact most databases already use
>> this technique to serve read requests while a write is occurring. A
>> notable exception in MySQL's MyISAM storage engine, which does table
>> level locks on write.
>>
>> #2:
>>
>> POSTing a new document to the database URL will in fact auto-generate
>> a UUID for the ID.
>>
>> curl -B -X POST http://localhost:5984/friendbook -d '{"name":
>> "test"}'
>>
>> {"ok":true,"id":"566e349485cfddfd94471212f4808518","rev":"1-49ce25e3db701c8cb613c1fd18d99619"}
>>
>> The "-B" flag is telling curl to encode the data as ASCII
>>
>>
>> Please pipe up if there were any other mistakes. Slides will be on
>> slideshare.net shortly. Search for delagoya and couchdb, should come
>> right up.
>>
>> Last note, I was pretty out of it last night and forgot to leave some
>> cash for my beer. I owe someone a malty beverage.
>> -angel
>>
>> On Nov 29, 5:50 pm, Angel <delag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > One note, on aaron's suggestion, as well as based on the interest
>> > shown at other talks , I'll be cutting out some of the more intro
>> > material in favor for a look under the hood of couch, as well as a
>> > practical distributed deployment scenario.
>> > -Angel
>> > On Nov 26, 10:30 pm, Aaron Feng <aaron.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > For those who didn't get a chance to catch Angel Pizarro's CouchDB
>> > > presentation at Bar Camp or ALT.NET, he will be doing it again for us.
>> > >  Once again, I started a doodle page for the meeting, so please select
>> > > any days that you can make it.  In about a week or so I'll pick the
>> > > *most* popular date for the presentation.  Also please use your real
>> > > name so I can add you to the building's access list.
>> >
>> > > Doodle participate page:
>> >
>> > >http://www.doodle.com/8z85yyw9sh9upi28
>> >
>> > > The presentation will be hosted at the usual place, Algorithmics, 2929
>> > > Arch St, Philadelphia.
>> >
>> > > Here's the description for the presentation:
>> >
>> > > CouchDB: No SQL? No Driver? No problem
>> > > CouchDB is representative of a set of document-oriented database that
>> > > have come to the fore of the collective geek consciousness. At it's
>> > > heart it is a key-value store, but it can query into (and index)
>> > > specific properties of the documents for fast performance. What makes
>> > > CouchDB unique is it's MVCC transactional model and emphasis on using
>> > > HTTP communication as the connection mechanism. In this talk we'll
>> > > cover usage of CouchDB with a simple example, as well as look at when
>> > > (and when not) such a database makes sense to use in favor of
>> > > traditional relational databases.
>> >
>> > > Thanks,
>> >
>> > > Aaron
>
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