Still Life, Big Numbers · Today I was reading the wonderful Conversation Between Dave Patterson and Jim Gray over at the ACM site. Patterson and Gray are both pretty famous in our profession, but neither is as famous as he deserves to be. Instructions: If you care at all about anything to do with data and where it lives, skip over and read Patterson and Gray. Then, if your infrastructure is up to a (quite pretty) 4.4MB Quicktime movie, proceed. (World’s first videoblog! Be an early adopter!) Otherwise, see ya later ...
