Category Archives: Software

Toying with node.js

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 4th, 2010
A commenter rightly complained that despite my claims of “playing around” with node.js, all I could come up was with the example in the man page. I replied saying that I did intend to post something that I wrote from scratch, and as promised, here is my first toy node.js program: var sys = require('sys'); [...]
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Some thoughts on dbShards

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 3rd, 2010
I heard about dbShards via two recent blog posts — one by Curt Monash and the other by Todd Hoff. It seemed like an interesting product, so I spent some time digging around on their website. As the name suggests, dbShards is all about sharding. Sharding, also known as partitioning, is the process of distributing a [...]
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What is node.js?

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 21st, 2010
Image via Wikipedia If you follow the world of Javascript and/or high-performance networking, you have probably heard of node.js. If you already grok Node, then this post is not for you; move along. If, however, you are a bit confused as to exactly what Node.js is and how it works, then you should read on. [...]
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How the mouse moves

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: May 12th, 2010
Random interesting find of the day: IOGraphica. Here’s mine for about 7 hours at work: Such a simple app, but such a fascinating output. An easy way to create computer generated art! Couple of observations: I have a dual-monitor setup at work. I use the left monitor for email for browsing and the right monitor [...]
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Big Data Analytics

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 31st, 2010
DISCLAIMER: As with all other material on this blog, these are my thoughts and do NOT reflect the opinions of my employer. I really like the tagline on our logo: big data. fast insights. But leaving the marketing aside, what does it mean really? What is all the hoopla about big data analytics? The way [...]
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