On Lowered Expectations: Transactions, Scaling, and Honesty

Re:On Lowered Expectations: Transactions, Scaling, and Honesty by normloman on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:25PM (#7869697)

I've noticed a trend of naming articles "On $topic1, $topic2, and $topic3". Seems like a lazy way to title your article. Yeah, it tells us what your article is about, but not specifically what it's about. Just lists 3 topics that the author will somehow involve in their discussion.

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Re:On Lowered Expectations: Transactions, Scaling, and Honesty by jrullmann on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:26PM (#7869706)

That's fair. My runner up title was Scaling All the Things: An Honest Look at Limited and General Transactions. Better or worse?

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Re:On Lowered Expectations: Transactions, Scaling, and Honesty by normloman on Monday June 09, 2014 @03:02PM (#7869881)

A little better. The current title includes the words honesty, transactions, and scaling, but didn't show how they were related. Your original title at least strings them into a coherent sentence that more accurately describes the content: how databases really perform in terms of scalability, and how transactions affect that scalability.

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Re:On Lowered Expectations: Transactions, Scaling, and Honesty by jrullmann on Monday June 09, 2014 @03:05PM (#7869894)

Makes sense to me. Thanks for the feedback.

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