Dan Mead on 19 Jul 2010 12:45:33 -0700


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Re: [RSVP] Philly Lambda July 28th Meeting - SQL to NoSQL joining forces


if it's good enough for nasa, it's good enough for us!

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-07/msg00394.php

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Nik Kolev <nkolev@gmail.com> wrote:
> any chance this can be video recorded?
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Last month we accidentally collided with NoSQL Summer
>> (http://nosqlsummer.org/city/philadelphia).  It turns out many Philly
>> Lambda members really enjoyed having to attending both meetings on the
>> same night.  Since this month's meeting is on Postgres I thought it
>> would be appropriate to combine both groups so people don't have to
>> migrate.  It would be another "uber geek" night.  The room will be
>> available at 6:00pm at Comcast (45th floor of the Comcast Center at
>> 17th & JFK downtown.), and the meeting will start at 6:15pm.  At 7:30
>> we will switch to NoSQL Summer.
>>
>> Here's the meeting title and description:
>>
>> On Scaling and Postgres at MyYearbook by Michael Glaesemann
>>
>> With the surge of interest in non-relational data storage, it's useful
>> to take a step back to look at how relational database systems can
>> back high traffic social network sites. MyYearbook, a social network
>> in the top-25 US sites in terms of pageviews, uses Postgres as its
>> primary persistant datastore. How do they do it? Why use a technology
>> as unhip as Postgres? Here's your chance to find out!
>>
>> As usual, please RSVP below so I can pass it on to the organizers of
>> NoSQL.
>>
>> http://doodle.com/hqe37c8p4yd7rzex
>>
>> Big thanks to our speaker Michael Glaesemann and also Michael
>> Bevilacqua-Linn and Jonathan Moore for making this joint meeting
>> possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
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