Next meeting?

[Kyle Smith]

Are we meeting tomorrow night, or next Thursday (7/15)? Do we have a
paper selected yet?

[Patrick Robertson]

Word on the street is we're talking http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/cap-theorem tomorrow.

[Dan Croak]

Hi folks,

I'll be coordinating these for the rest of the summer. I've just
posted tomorrow's meeting.

It is at 7pm at the NERD Center and the paper is the CAP Theorem as
Patrick linked.

I'd love to get a discussion going about how people are thinking about
CAP in their apps and databases. We're mostly using SQL and MongoDB so
I'll try to drag some colleagues along to provide an opinion there.
Would love to have some of the Cloudant guys weighing in as well.

thoughtbot will buy dinner.

Upcoming events are scheduled at the NERD for:

7/15
7/29
8/12
8/26

I'd like to tentatively focus on Redis and Cassandra on 7/29. Let's
decide at the meeting tomorrow night.

If you haven't signed up for email alerts for the meetings, please do so at:

http://nosqlsummer.org/city/boston

Dan

[Daniel Weinreb]

I'll try to come.  Meanwhile, I just posted a blog entry about
this paper, which I finally got a chance to look at carefully:

http://danweinreb.org/blog/what-does-the-proof-of-the-cap-theorem-mean

Hope to see you tonight,
Dan



Patrick Robertson said the following on 7/14/2010 1:12 PM:

[Daniel Rinehart]

Hope to be there but maybe running a little late.

-- Daniel R. <dan...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]

[Dan Croak]

Sandwiches, chips, drinks, and desserts from
http://www.broadwaymarketplace.com/ for the first 30 people!

[Justin Sun]

I'll be there!

[Patrick Scott]

I will also be there

On Jul 15, 2010 11:10 AM, "Justin Sun" <justi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll be there!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dan Croak <dcr...@thoughtbot.com> wrote:
>

> Sandwiches, chips, ...

[Dan Croak]

I plan on just giving the NERD everyone's name from this mailing list
to keep the friction low at the security desk.

Another good post on CAP theorem:

http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theorem

It begins with a story about the Sex Pistols so you know it's good.

[russel...@gmail.com]

Reply!

[Daniel Weinreb]

Here is the URL of my blog post, to which I referred yesterday:

http://danweinreb.org/blog/what-does-the-proof-of-the-cap-theorem-mean

You might also like the previous one, about Mike Stonebraker's
answer to NoSQL:

http://danweinreb.org/blog/voltdb-versus-nosql

A CACM article about VoltDB from Stonebraker and Rick Cattell
is currently in review. I have an advanced copy which I am not allowed
to share, but basically it's a more careful version of what Stonebraker
has already written about VoltDB in the paper I referenced.

(Not careful enough; after it comes out I'll post my comments.
It's too late for them to incorporate any comments I send them
except copy editing, so I am telling them all their grammatical
errors.)

I liked yesterday's meeting very much. It's like a graduate
seminar, without the omniscient professor. What a good
way to share knowledge!

-- Dan

Dan Croak said the following on 7/15/2010 11:26 AM:

[Dan Croak]

Thanks for initiating much of the discussion, Daniel. I learned a lot.

If anyone has ideas for simple ways to improve it, like having a
group-editable, public Google Doc for us to collaboratively take notes
during the next meeting, please share!

I mentioned "No Relation: The Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational
Databases" as an excellent survey of NoSQL tools. Worth reading if
folks haven't seen it yet:

http://ianvarley.com/UT/MR/Varley_MastersReport_Full_2009-08-07.pdf

[Patrick Scott]

At the previous meeting I suggested using wave, I think that would be a lot easier to maintain than a Google doc. If people want to use that maybe should all bring laptops to the next meeting?

On Jul 16, 2010 10:17 AM, "Dan Croak" <dcr...@thoughtbot.com> wrote:

Thanks for initiating much of the discussion, Daniel. I learned a lot.

If anyone has ideas for simple ways to improve it, like having a
group-editable, public Google Doc for us to collaboratively take notes
during the next meeting, please share!

I mentioned "No Relation: The Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational
Databases" as an excellent survey of NoSQL tools. Worth reading if
folks haven't seen it yet:

http://ianvarley.com/UT/MR/Varley_MastersReport_Full_2009-08-07.pdf

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Weinreb <d...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Here is the URL of my b...