Description:

Felix was supposed to speak at JSConf 2010 in Washington, DC, but then there was a volcano!

What would happen if your database would have no network interface, no query abstractions and less than 250 lines of node.js code? You would end up with a very flexible in-memory database that is wonderfully suitable for dirty tasks such as rapid prototyping or performing millions of GET/SET operations per second.

This talk is about rethinking current database technology and exploring situation-based CAP tradeoffs.