
There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on a production incident which GitHub disclosed.
Here is my take on...
0 replies - 2180 views - 09/25/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

Last week we brought up the question, “How did end users learn to expect fast websites?” We
covered how Pavlov discovered Conditioning through...
0 replies - 3693 views - 09/24/12 by Mehdi Daoudi in Articles

You create an amazing app. You put it into production. And you notice
that you just do not have enough memory available. Even when all your
measurements...
1 replies - 3028 views - 09/23/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

First, what are asserts? An assertion is a predicate (a true–false statement) placed in a program
to indicate that the developer thinks that the predicate...
0 replies - 3630 views - 09/21/12 by Mike Ensor in Articles

At Wikia we’ve written a lot of
code and used many different tools to improve performance. We have
profilers, we’ve used every major linux webserver,...
0 replies - 4323 views - 09/20/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

In the time it takes to read this sentence, someone has viewed this post
and moved on. They probably didn't even read this sentence....
0 replies - 4502 views - 09/19/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

Originally posted by Vadim TkachenkoIn my previous post, I finished with a graph with unstable results. Now let's explore some different ways to present those...
0 replies - 2327 views - 09/17/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

When I first considered taking ClojureScript for a spin, there were several things that gave me pause:
"What's the debugging experience...
0 replies - 3080 views - 09/17/12 by Jason Rudolph in Articles

I have an application that is composed by WPF clients deployed over the internet and a central WCF service exposed over Https for security reasons. Everything...
0 replies - 4279 views - 09/15/12 by Ricci Gian Maria in Articles

It won't be surprising for most of us to find out that the thing the
average dev cares most about in a computer is performance: CPU power,...
0 replies - 8021 views - 09/13/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Editor's Note: This article was original written by Graham Dumpleton. Last week, we released the latest version of our Python agent. This release includes a...
0 replies - 1397 views - 09/12/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Even though multiple fixes have been implemented in Percona Server
and MySQL 5.5, there are still workloads in which case mutex (or
rw-lock)...
0 replies - 2531 views - 09/11/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

Caches have been around in the software world for long time. They’re one
of those really useful things that once you start using them you wonder
how on...
1 replies - 3520 views - 09/11/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

"Don’t Benchmark Yourself Against Normal" has been making the rounds this morning. I expressed the gist of what I’m about to say in a comment on...
0 replies - 2602 views - 09/10/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

The content of this post was originally written by Vadim Tkachenko over at the MySQL Performance Blog. I continue my benchmarks of Intel SSD 910, the raw...
0 replies - 2673 views - 09/08/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles