DirecTV not ready for college football season
I thought my PHP/MySQL friends would get a kick out of another story of a company not being ready for technical demand. I live in Alabama (southeastern USA). For those that do not realize, we like...
Out with cluster, hello replication
Well, I have written a good bit about MySQL Cluster this year. We had been using it as a sort of pregenerated cache for our forward facing web servers. However, we have decided on a different rout...
O'Reilly Open Source Conference Day Two
So, day two was the cool keynote day. Day one keynotes were from Tim O'Reilly (not that he is not cool) and the vendors sponsors. The Intel building blocks stuff was neat, but most of it was vend...
O'Reilly Open Source Conference Day One
Day one is complete. Portland is great as always. Its really day 1 1/2 since we got in at 1PM yesterday. That allowed us to go to the MySQL/Zend party last night. Great party by those guys. ...
MySQL cluster and all dump 1000
So, I had written a while back: "We currently have a DataMemory of 4GB and IndexMemory of 2GB. Based on the crude methods we have to monitor it, I think we are at about 40% capacity." Boy, I was wro...
Caching for fun and profit, a BoF at OS CON
Last year at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference I hosted a BoF (Birds of a Feather) about memcached. It was a popular event. So, this year, I decided to broaden the scope to caching in general. Its ...
HTML Purifier and Phorum
There have been several posts about HTML Purifier 2.0 lately. I did not look to closely at it until I saw this post on our Phorum support forum. Seems the creator of HTML Purifier has chosen Phorum ...
MySQL Cluster SQL Tips
So, I mentioned in my MySQL Cluster post that I found out that cluster and joins don't get a long too well. There are a couple of tips I have for using joins or replacing them with other techniques t...
RAID is dying?
There is a bunch of posts on Planet MySQL this week about RAID. This comment from Kevin Burton really kind of made me go "huh?". You’re thinking too low level. Who cares if the disk fails. The ent...
Five months with MySQL Cluster
So, the whole world changed at dealnews when Yahoo! linked us. We realized that our current infrastructure was not scaling very well. We had to make a change. The Problem Even though we were using...