dealnews is hiring a Systems Administrator
We are hiring! dealnews is looking for a full time systems administrator. The developers have been sharing the sys admin load for over 10 years now. But, we really need a dedicated p...
Replication is much better than cold backups
So, I wrote about the begining of our wild database issues. Since then, I have been fighting a cold, coaching little league football and trying to help out in getting our backup solutions working in t...
Database nightmare
Its 12:30AM (00:30 for you Euros). I am watching The Daily Show on Tivo. All is well. Then the phone beeps. MySQL Main is critical SSH? no. Digi console? no. About a week ago, we had a m...
Where Drizzle fits in for me
So, most of you have heard about Drizzle by now. For those that have not, you can check out many, many blog posts or the Launchpad page. The thread on Slashdot about Drizzle was quite negative. M...
Usability FAIL
I can't be at OSCON this year. But my colleague Rob is and he just posted a usability post about, of all things, the Double Tree hotel where I am sure a lot of you are staying. Great stuff....
Caching and TTL behavior
So, I am working on MemProxy some. Mainly, I am trying to implement more of the Cache-Control header's many options. The one that has me a bit perplexed s-maxage. Particularly when combined with...
Velocity Conference Roundup
As I said before, I was invited to be on a panel at Velocity Conference. I was delighted to go. I had never been to San Francisco. I have been to Portland and Santa Clara several times. The pa...
Did you know I am going to be at Velocity?
Well, neither did I until today. HA! Velocity is a new O'Reilly conference dedicated to "Optimizing Web Performance and Scalability". It starts next Monday. Yesterday I was contacted by Adam Jaco...
An Introduction to MySQL - Birmingham, AL
I am giving a talk titled "An Introduction to MySQL" here in Birmingham, AL on June 21, 2008 at 3PM. I love living in Alabama. I was born and raised in Huntsville. However, Birmingham has always ...
MemProxy 0.1
MemProxy 0.1 is out! It has taken me a while, but I have finally gotten around to releasing the code that I credited with saving us during a Yahoo! mention. It is a caching proxy "server" that use...