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The Mythical MySQL DBA
December 19, 2011I’ve been getting more than my fair share of calls from recruiters of late. Even in this depressed economic climate where jobs are rarer than a cab at rush-hour, it’s heartening to know that tech engineers are in great demand. And it’s even more heartening to think that demand for MySQL...
Read more What Ops doesn’t tell you about your MySQL Database
December 16, 2011MySQL is a very scalable platform which has proven robust even in the most dense and complex data environments. MySQL's indispensable replication function is 'sold' as being fail-safe so you have little to sweat about as long as your backups are running regularly. But what the ops guys aren't...
Read more How to hire a developer that doesn’t suck
November 25, 2011First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse operations team.It is almost by default that developers are disruptive with their creative...
Read more Book Review – Effective MySQL
November 3, 2011Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements by Ronald Bradford No Nonsense, Readable, Practical, and CompactI like that this book is small; 150 pages means you can carry it easily. It's also very no nonsense. It does not dig too deeply into theory unless it directly relates to your...
Read more 5 Tips to Cache Websites and Boost Speed
November 1, 2011Often when we think about speeding up and scaling, we focus on the application layer itself. We look at the webserver tier, and database tier, and optimize the...
Read moreWhy generalists are better at scaling the web
October 25, 2011Recently at Surge 2011, the annual conference on scalability and performance, Google's CIO Ben Fried gave an illuminating keynote address. His main insight was that generalists are the people that will lead engineering teams in successfully scaling the web.In a world where the...
Read more5 Things That Are Toxic to Scalability
August 26, 2011Scalability is about application, architecture and infrastructure design, and careful management of server components. 1. Object Relational MappersORMs are popular among developers but not among performance experts. Why is that? Primarily these two engineers experience a web application from entirely different perspectives. One is building functionality, delivering features, and results are measured on fitting business requirements. Performance and scalability are often low...
Read more Top 3 Questions From Clients
August 15, 20111. This page or area of the website is very slow, why?There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud. Website performance starts with the...
Read more 5 Ways to Boost MySQL Scalability
July 28, 2011There are a lot of scalability challenges we see with clients over and over. The list could easily include 20, 50 or even 100 items, but we shortened it down to the biggest five issues we see.1. Tune those queries...
Read more Deploying MySQL on Amazon EC2 – 8 Best Practices
February 21, 2011There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud. Some concepts and details won't be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on traditional servers. Here are eight best practices which will certainly set...
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