When you have a limited supply of some resource, and a demand for that resource that exceeds the supply, you have something economists call a shortage. In this article I explain how we deal with shortages of resources (called congestion) in software systems. In economics we learn about the concept of Supply and Demand. Simply [...]

This morning, I found a web site highlighted by Refdesk, my favorite reference web site. The link was: FDIC: Failed Bank List The FDIC is often appointed as receiver for failed banks. This page contains useful information for the customers and vendors of these banks. This includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how [...]

In my recent post about Drizzle I suggested that because Drizzle has fewer lines of code (less than half compared to MySQL) that is has a lower intrinsic risk of software defects. Of course it has bugs of its own, but because Drizzle is focused squarely on OLTP use cases, it can be substantially smaller [...]