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The Math of Automated Failover

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

Why We Expect Fast Websites: Sex, Drugs, Reward and Fast Pages (Part II)

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

Who is Stealing Your Memory? (Application Servers Edition)

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

A Brief Overview of Java Assertions

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

The Pitfalls of Web Caches

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

The First Three Seconds: How Users Are Lost

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

Some Fun with R Visualization

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

ClojureScript: 4 Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't

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

WCF over HTTPS, Compression, and Binary Binding

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

Poll: Why is Development 'Performance-Driven'?

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

Introducing Capacity Analysis for Python

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

How Innodb Contention May Manifest Itself

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

Caching and @Cacheable

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

Remember to Benchmark Yourself Against Normal

"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

Intel SSD 910 in tpcc-mysql Benchmark

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