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MySQL | 2007-08-03
YouTube Scaling Video – Cuong DoAlex forwarded me a link to an awesome scaling presentation by Cuong Do from YouTube about their architecture for scaling. He describes problems with massive scale-out, moving static content serving […]
MySQL | 2007-08-02
MySQL Camp II – Thursday Night – All-Night HackathonGiuseppe had a great idea this morning on a conference call: why not let campers reduce their lodging costs by doing an all-night hackathon on the Thursday evening? And thus, […]
MySQL | 2007-08-02
Target Practice – A Workshop in Tuning MySQL QueriesI gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I’ve gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now: The […]
MySQL | 2007-08-01
MySQL Camp II – Registrations Limited – Contact MeA while ago I blogged about the next MySQL Camp happening in New York. Sadly, I have had some trouble getting the new web server going (problems on my end […]
MySQL | 2007-07-24
Our Fearless Leader, MÃ¥rten Mickos – And Party on at OSCONHere is a perfect photo from James Duncan Davidson that illustrates the drive and ambition of MÃ¥rten Mickos, our fearless leader, battling with an unfortunate competitor at the Ubuntu Live […]
MySQL | 2007-07-19
Interview with me on HowSoftwareIsBuilt.comA few weeks ago, I had a chance to speak with Scott Swigart about MySQL, open source, development and community challenges, and other stuff. He sent me a link to […]
MySQL | 2007-07-17
Internals of MyISAM’s Concurrent Insert Functionality – Part IOK, so we’re going to get pretty down-and-dirty in the C source code that handles concurrent inserts… you’ve been warned. 🙂 For background on the MyISAM concurrent insert functionality, see […]
MySQL | 2007-07-17
Correction on Concurrent Insert for MyISAMMax Mether pointed out an error in something I mentioned last week in a performance tuning webinar and I wanted to clarify and correct. In the webinar I said that […]
DB Rambles | 2007-07-13
Congrats to the PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB/Sun Team for BenchmarksI wanted to write a quick shout-out to congratulate the PostgreSQL development team, the folks at Sun who work with Josh Berkus, and the folks at EnterpriseDB, all of whom […]
MySQL | 2007-07-12
Speaking at ZendCon – October 8-11 – San FranciscoI’ll be giving a 1 hour session at ZendCon this year entitled “MySQL Performance Coding – From Soup to Nuts”. The abstract says 3 hours, but I believe it’s a […]