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Speaking at RAMP: Scale Patterns and handling exponential growth without downtime 8 Jul 2013 | 01:38 am
I will be in Budapest talking about Scale and Rapid Growth. I will start off with Flickr's Five minute conversation to take a direction on how to scale the backend to getting 90 million users in 3 wee...
First Week.5 in China: Part Two, Refactor PHP get 10% more capacity with one change 24 Jun 2013 | 04:44 pm
The PHP code that I've experienced in China so far is pretty good. I have been in some environments where the Code is horrendous-where variables are set in one file yet used in another file via a requ...
First Week in China: Build a new Dev Environment 19 Jun 2013 | 07:10 am
I see my role as enabling others. When I was a pure awesome DBA in the early 2000s I enabled developers and customers of a companies product by making mySQL fault-tolerant and fast. As I moved up the ...
In China and Spreading mySQL/MariaDB/XtraDB Ganglia, GearmanD, Memcache, MongoDB, HAProxy, Nginx, PHP, Python 13 Jun 2013 | 07:48 am
I am currently in Beijing for a month as the VP of Technology for Fun+, a US/China based gaming company, spreading the joys of open-source I have an entire team to do benchmarks, study INNODB flushin...
How to pick indexes is the same for MongoDB as mySQL 13 May 2013 | 11:16 pm
I recently went to MongoDB Days, a conference about everything MongoDB in SF. Starting my career as a Systems Programmer then Web Developer, MySQL DB[Admin|Architect], to Software|System Architecture ...
I'll be speaking at Percona Live April 24th in Ballroom F 24 Apr 2013 | 02:59 am
WHEN YOU SCALE OUT HOW TO SCALE IN BY INCREASING DENSITY USING RAIDED SSD 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Sharding-splitting data for a single database server onto many database se...
Instant InnoDB by Matthew Reid Review 23 Mar 2013 | 03:42 am
Instant InnoDB by PACKT publishing is 83 page book on getting a basic understanding of InnoDB. Enough of an understanding to know what questions to ask in the future. The book is not for intermediate ...
Multi MySQL is perfect for SSDs and Removing Replication Lag 7 Feb 2013 | 07:00 am
Ever run into a problem where an application's Master is accepting all the writes and the master's slaves lags? Ever had this same problem yet the Slave has a raid array of very fast SSDs? You must be...
Raid Stripe Size, Raid Stripe Segment Size the definition and SSD consideration 5 Dec 2012 | 01:18 am
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false For years now I have been confusing Stripe Segment Size with Stripe Size, when configuring my RAID arrays. I always thought that Stripe Size is the n...
A Case for Automation of OpenNMS for XTRADB Backups with Python 14 Jul 2012 | 08:13 am
If you read my blog from time to time, you know I am a huge advocate of automating tasks. If I have to do something more then once I might was well automate the task. Currently at my new gig, we are u...
