Learning to tune a database
wooster: Sure. Make an app that stores a very large amount of data. A good example would be spidering web data (unstructured), parsing some structure from it, and storing it in a database. Then, do some analysis on it, expose it to the web, etc.The important thing is either to:a) Have a lot of data.orb) Have a lot of traffic.The first is a lot easier to get than the second.