Category Archives: Storing data

Posts about technologies for storing data, such as various kinds of databases.

Disk drive reliability in detail

I tend to get abstract and philosophical about data here, and it’s good to have have an occasional splash in the cold water of how the stuff gets stored. Jon Elerath’s article on hard disk reliability in the June 2009 … Continue reading

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Quick addendum about the Chandler Repository

If my brief article about the Chandler Repository caught your interest, you might want to check out Andi’s blog, in which he discusses some of the design and implementation issues. Accounts of software design from the time of implementation are … Continue reading

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The Chandler Repository

I spent a few hours yesterday in the company of Andi Vajda, lead developer of the data repository component of the Open Source Applications Foundation’s Chandler project. We talked about the technical details of the repository. The Chandler repository is … Continue reading

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