I started hearing about Cassandra recently. Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. The short-list of adopters is impressive; Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Rackspace, Reddit, etc. The Digg [...]
NPR features The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct.