Don Pinto of CouchBase gave a webinar today on some common use cases of CouchBase, with the recording and slides below: Webinar — How Companies Use Couchbase: Common Use Cases from Couchbase

Hi, just a quick note to say that recordings of my talk with Community for F# is now available. In this session, I shared some of our experiences of building a successful MMORPG for a social audience and insights into some of the technical challenges that my team has had to overcome along the way. [...]

A couple of weeks earlier, Amazon announced support for Local Secondary Indexes (LSI) for DynamoDB. You can now perform fast, efficient queries against DynamoDB tables using attributes that are not part of the existing Hash and Range key model without resorting to the use of scans. As a result to the new feature the DynamoDB [...]

Hi, just a quick note to mention that I’ll be talking to Community for F# on the 14th May at 11AM PDT about our experience of building an MMORPG, some of the challenges we face along the way and how F# helps us solve some of these problems. You can register for the event here. [...]

.Net 4 introduced the Lazy<T> type which allows you to create an object that can be lazily initialized so that you can delay the creation of large objects, for instance. However, if your initialization logic has the potential to except at runtime (e.g. time out exceptions reading from some external data source) then you should [...]