Fragment of heretofore unknown Tractate of Babylonian Talmud discovered
Ancient wisdom apparently has much to offer modern cloud application architects. This fragment was discovered in a shadowy basement in the Tel Aviv area of Israel. See a PDF of the fragment This finding clearly shows that ancient cloud application architects in the great talmudic academies of Babylon struggled with the transition away from classic databases. At the time, apparently, a widely used solution was known as Urim veTumim (“oracle”). Yet this database was unsuited for reliable use in cloud applications, and the text explores the reasons behind that unsuitability. ...