Percona’s Kenny Gryp leads a recent MySQL workshop
Percona will be in Chicago and London the week of April 8th delivering two 2-day MySQL workshops. For our MPB readers, we are offering a 15% discount. Just use MPB15A when purchasing your tickets to one or both MySQL workshops.
Scaling and Optimization for MySQL on Monday & Tuesday, […]
Read moreI use Aspersa tools a lot and I find myself going to the website just to download one of the tools all the time. I love I can download maatkit with a simple wget maatkit.org/get/tool command so I made bit.ly shortcuts for all of the current aspersa tools. Here’s the full list with my […]
Read moreI recently had a run-in with a very popular PHP ecommerce package which makes me want to voice a recurring mistake I see in how many web applications are architected.
What is that mistake?
The ecommerce package I was working with depended on caching. Out of the box it couldn’t serve 10 pages/second unless I enabled […]
Read moreDid that ever happen to you in production?
Shell
[percona@sandbox msb_5_0_87]$ ./use
ERROR 1040 (00000): Too many connections
12
[percona@sandbox msb_5_0_87]$ ./useERROR 1040 (00000): Too many connections
Just happened to one of our customers. Want to know what we did?
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Recently I had a chance to take a look at Redis project, which is semi-persistent in memory database with idea somethat similar to memcache but richer feature set.
Redis has simple single process event driven design, which means it does not have to deal with any locks which is performance killer for a lot […]
Today I worked on rather interesting customer problem. Site was subject what was considered DDOS and solution was implemented to protect from it. However in addition to banning the intruders IPs it banned IPs of web services which were very actively used by the application which caused even worse problems by […]
Read moreSometimes you need to work with big numbers in PHP (gulp). For example, sometimes 32-bit identifiers are not enough and you have to use BIGINT 64-bit ids; e.g. if you are encoding additional information like the server ID into high bits of the ID.
I had already written about the mess that 64-bit integers are […]
Recently I had a case with a web server farm where a random node went down every few minutes. I don’t mean any of them rebooted except once or twice, but rather they were slowing down so much that practically stopped serving any requests and were being pulled out from the LVS cluster. The […]
Read moreI’ve already wrote a few times about various projects using Sphinx with MySQL for scalable Full Text Search applications. For example on BoardReader we’re using this combination to build search against over 1 billion of forum posts totaling over 1.5TB of data handling hundreds of thousands of search queries per day.
The count […]
We’re working with web site preparing for massive growth. To make sure it handles large data sets as part of the process we work on generation test database of significant size as testing your application on table with 1000 rows may well give you very dangerous false sense of security. […]
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