CSU: Refusal to block the internet violates agreements - Golem.de - "Content that is banned must be removed so that it is no longer accessible to anyone. Users could bypass blocks within a few minutes. Those who insist on this have no idea about modern technologies, according to the minister. 'And furthermore, we do not want such a blocking infrastructure to be set up because it inherently poses the risk that it is not only used for such content, but can theoretically also be used for other purposes,' said Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger."
Archive 7. April 2010
twitter's gizzard - could become interesting, a framework for distributing and replicating data across various backends. Gizzard deals exclusively with sharding and replication, the datastore itself is treated separately, making it interesting for various scenarios.
Writing a non-relational Django backend - Django nonrel / NoSQL blog - All buttons pressed - I'm not a big fan of NoSQL (in my opinion, many NoSQL approaches reflect a lack of understanding of relational databases rather than actual shortcomings or weaknesses of relational databases), but if you're going to use NoSQL, I'd prefer to do it through the Django ORM, which I quite like. And here's how you can build a Django ORM wrapper for NoSQL databases with relatively little effort.