Commandments of Good Code

These are actually quite good. I was expecting some cargo cult Agile related nonsense "always do 100% test coverage, blah blah".

I'm down with "All (ok most) programming languages are simultaneously good and bad". I assumed it would go on to discuss Javascript, but nope. Which really goes to show how true the statement is.

&gt; * Key Value Stores Redis &#x2F; Memcache<p>&gt; * No-SQL land: MongoDB&#x2F;Cassandra etc.<p>&gt; * “Traditional” Schema’d SQL: Oracle&#x2F;Postgres&#x2F;MySQL&#x2F;Amazon RDS Etc.<p>&gt; * Hosted DBs: AWS RDS &#x2F; DynamoDB &#x2F; AppEngine Datastore<p>&gt; * Heavy lifting: Amazon MR &#x2F; Hadoop (Hive&#x2F;Pig) &#x2F; Cloudera &#x2F; Google Big Query<p>&gt; * Batshit crazy stuff: Erlang’s Mnesia, iOS’s Core Data<p>Cringeworthy to be sure.