This is kind of silly, but I like the nonlocal keyword in Python 3 (well, ok, I like let-bindings in Lisps much much better, but this will do) and how you can get a closure and then poke the insides of the closure to see what it’s up to. Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2010
relating to nosql
Posted by Matt Bone
on July 12, 2010
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About the time the nosql movement started to get legs, I started to get interested in relational databases. They’re awesome beasts, and horizontal scalability issues aside, they handle a lot of the very hard problems in the web programming space (i.e. durability and concurrency). But when data gets large and you can’t find the 2 million quarters in your sofa for that oracle license (or the 2 million braincells for that oh-so-perfect sharding scheme), the nosql databases start to show their appeal. Read more »
