Git: the stupid NOSQL database

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Argues that Git — the stupid content tracker — can serve as a distributed key/value and graph store, and demonstrates concrete tooling and limits: grit and libgit2/Ribbit for access, Gollum and Wheat as real apps, mcache and redis for caching, and an experimental each tweet is a commit Twitter clone that works functionally but exposes race and scaling pain. Notes a Wiki with ~30,000 pages becomes painfully slow, native git calls beat Ruby walkers, and Riak/CouchDB/Cassandra are explored as practical wingmen.

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2. 0:06Platinum Sponsor
3. 17:01GitRuby vs Native Git
4. 21:06Commit SHAs =- Vector Clocks
5. 22:34Get Git a Wingman!
6. 24:18Use Simple APIs

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