In order of first appearance in The Morning Paper.
This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.
- Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.
- Based on tuples from set theory.
- They are one of the oldest, most commonly used data structures.
A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."
- Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
- Have we kept things as simple as possible?