Talking about Gearman at Etsy Labs
I find myself flying to New York on Monday for some dealnews related business. Anytime I travel I try and find something fun to do at night. (Watching a movie by myself in Provo, Utah was kinda not th...
MySQL Conference Review
I am back home from a good week at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo. I had a great time and got to see some old friends I had not seen in a while.Oracle gave the opening keynote and it we...
Logging with MySQL
I was reading a post by Dathan Vance Pattishall titled "Cassandra is my NoSQL solution but..". In the post, Dathan explains that he uses Cassandra to store clicks because it can write a lot faster tha...
Using ini files for PHP application settings
At dealnews we have three tiers of servers. First is our development servers, then staging and finally production. The complexity of the environment increases at each level. On a development server, e...
Forking PHP!
We use PHP everywhere in our stack. For us, it makes sense because we have hired a great staff of PHP developers. So, we leverage that talent by using PHP everywhere we can. One place where peop...
The rise of the GLAMMP stack
First there was LAMP. But are you using GLAMMP? You have probably not heard of it because we just coined the term while chatting at work. You know LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP ...
Net::Gearman and PHP 5.2.9
I just discovered an incompatibility between Net Gearman and PHP 5.2.9+. json_decode was changed in 5.2.9 to return NULL on invalid JSON strings. Previously, the bare string had been retur...