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SQLite Firefox plugin

  • Posted by Mike P.
  • December 14, 2008

Over in XMission Research and Development we’ve been finding ouselves having a lot of conversations about overengineered databases. Sure, it’s nice to have fully relational databases and be able to store procedures and do subselects, but how often do developers really need these sorts of features?

Enter lightweight databases like SQLite. As the home page says, [...]

Flash to the Future


The XMission Research and Development team was in Boston this week, catching a ball game, taking in some local flavor…oh and we went to USENIX.

While there, I had the chance to hear from Adrian Cockroft, who is currently leading a performance tuning and research group over at Netflix.

Though his presentation was excellent, one of the [...]