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High Scalability is a serious and informative blog, and I wouldn't dismiss it. This isn't TechCrunch. Its focus is less on rigorous scientific analysis of a narrow field, but a good, moderately deep, overview of anything to do with data scaling. And it's doing a darn good job.

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In case you aren't aware, nostrademons is a Googler. He is pretty well-qualified to dismiss it in this particular case.

He might be... But just because you're one of the thousands of engineers at google, that doesn't make you automatically qualified.

Is he similarly well-qualified to dismiss an entire profession?

The second sentence is admittedly a cheap-shot and a bit overgeneral. I thought about editing it out, but people had already responded to it and I hate when people ninja-edit the part of a post that I'm responding to.

Well, thanks.

His employer doesn't matter. It doesn't add anything productive to the discussion. If one of Bing's developers had laughed off articles about Microsoft's architecture as "look at the adorable little journalists running around throwing big words around", I would not expect it to rise to top comment.

It's still not fair to toss HighScalability in with the pageview whoring tech rags.

In that case, a respectful and, more importantly, substantial comment would have been in order.

It's funny because it's technically a violation of an NDA.

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