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Wednesday, 9th September 2009

Londiste Tutorial. Master/slave replication for PostgreSQL, developed and used by Skype. # 11:06 pm

Why Python Pickle is Insecure. Because pickle is essentially a stack-based interpreter, so you can put os.system on the stack and use it to execute arbitrary commands. # 11:04 pm

Looking to the future with Cassandra. Digg are now using Cassandra for their “green badge” (one of your friends have dugg this story) feature—the resulting denormalised dataset weighs in at 3 TB and 76 billion columns. # 9:26 pm

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