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17th April 2009 - Link Blog

Drop ACID and think about data. I’ve been very impressed with the quality and speed with which the PyCon 2009 videos have been published. Here’s Bob Ippolito on distributed databases and key/value stores.

Posted 17th April 2009 at 5:13 pm

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