Use NoSQL or tune SQL queries ?

The most common complaint against NoSQL is that if you know how to write good SQL queries then SQL works fine. If SQL is slow you can always tune it and make it faster. A NoSQLite might counter that this is what key-value database is for. All that data could have been retrieved in one get, no tuning, problem solved. The counter is then you lose all the benefits of a relational database and it can be shown that the original was fast enough and could be made very fast through a simple turning process, so there is no reason to go NoSQL.

Read more about StackOverflow experience to make slow pages 100x faster by simple SQL tuning

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REST vs XML-RPC vs SOAP – pros and cons

What is web services?

Web Services are the key point of Integration for different applications belonging to different Platforms, Languages, systems.

Web services are set of platform independent exposed APIs(functions) which can be used used from remote server over the Internet. There are basically two parties involved in this, one which provides a set of exposed APIs and the another one ,commonly know as web services consumers,is the party which uses the functionality and services provided by web services providing party.

There are different method for providing web services but the most common are SOAP, XML-RPC and REST .

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Facebook under scrutiny for face-recognition feature from privacy group, lawmakers

Facebook’s new facial-recognition feature is getting some unwelcome recognition from a prominent privacy group and lawmakers in the U.S. and European Union.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center said that it plans to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission raising concerns over Facebook’s new “tag suggestions” feature which allow users to identify people across multiple photos at once using facial-recognition software.

Read more on LA Times – http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/facebook-under-scrutiny-for-face-recognition-feature-from-privacy-group-eu.html

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