Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Want to know what a really fast MOM system has to handle?

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Take a look at what you have to be able to consume if you want to consume live market data from major exchange feeds: April 2009 Capacity St...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Monty Bites The Hand That Fed Him: Part 2

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(Take a look at Part One of my Monty-Watch for some background as to what I think about the situation). So Monty Widenius and Peter Zaitse...

Friday, May 15, 2009

How Many Times Can Monty Sell MySQL?

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UPDATE 2009-05-27 : Monty's spoken to Matt Aslett, and I've responded . COMMENTARY UPDATE 2009-05-27 : If you're just reading t...

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sybase JDBC Drivers Ignore Your Database Selection

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A very common strategy in doing database-driven functional tests is for each user to have their own database instance on a shared test machi...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Oracle + Sun : A Java Perspective

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Smarter people than I have written about this , but having worked at several of the major players here (a summer at Oracle proper, 12 months...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

My Ideal Social Network

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I'm relatively plugged in. I blog (you're soaking in it now!); I have a FriendFeed ; I tweet (and those of you who need to know who...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Rise Of The Appliances

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I've posted before [1] on my desire for someone to sell me an AMQP Appliance , and while nobody has yet (probably the fact that 1.0 is i...

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