andrew oliver

Articles by andrew oliver

Functional programming: A step backward

The approach is all the rage among some programmers, but, a writer argues, it comes at the price of human readability

The time for NoSQL standards is now

Like Larry Ellison's yacht, the RDBMS is sailing into the sunset. But if NoSQL is to take its place, a standard query language and APIs must emerge soon

How to make PHP apps scale

The most popular language for Web apps, PHP tends to buckle under heavy loads -- unless you opt for cloud scaling and a NoSQL back end

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