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Linked List: April 27, 2006

Thursday, 27 April 2006

Using Flat Files Instead of Databases ★

Tim O’Reilly reports on web developers using flat files instead of proper databases for storage. I’m a big believer in using simple flat files unless you actually need a database. E.g. the way the Daring Fireball home page contains posts from two different weblog streams, interspersed chronologically — that’s assembled on-the-fly based on text files on disk, and typically takes less than one-hundredth of a second. (Via Tim Bray, another flat-file fan.)

1.0: Most Startups Fail ★

Nice essay from Rands on shipping a 1.0 product:

In thinking about the difficulties of 1.0, I realized that Maslow’s [Hierarchy of Needs] model fundamentally applied to shipping the first version of a product. There’s a hierarchy that defines what you need to build in order to ship 1.0 and it sort of looks like this.

ZFS on Mac OS X ★

Sun’s Eric Kustarz, on the ZFS-Discuss mailing list:

Chris Emura, the Filesystem Development Manager within Apple’s CoreOS organization is interested in porting ZFS to OS X. […]

Speaking for the zfs team (at Sun), this is great news and we fully support the effort.

(Via John Siracusa.)

Interarchy 8.0.1 ★

Bug-fix update to my favorite file transfer app.