After re-thinking and re-tooling some of the work I've been doingto take advantage of Gearman ,I've started to wish for a big file system in the sky. I guess it'sno surprise that Google uses GFS with their Map/Reduce jobs and thatHadoop has..
Topics: software

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After a few years off, I've been doing some writing for Linux Magazine (which is on-line only) again recently. First off, my just published feature article is Drizzle: Rethinking the MySQL Database Kernel . As you might have guessed, it looks at...
Topics: MySQL

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For a while now we've had a computer hooked up to our large screen television and stereo system. A couple months back I upgraded the motherboard, CPU, and memory so that we could start using the Windows 7 release candidate and Windows Media Center...
Topics: Toys

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As previously noted , I've been playing with XtraDB a bit at work. Over a week ago I decided to test compression on one of our larger tables and it took a bit longer than I expected. (root@db_server) [db_name] ALTER TABLE table_name \ ...
Topics: MySQL

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I haven't said a lot about the ongoing battle between Craigslist and certain overly-aggressive politicians, but after reading his most recent blog post, An Apology Is In Order , I have to say that I'm really proud of Jim. Having a CEO standing...

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