Many people asked me to publish a walk through SHOW INNODB STATUS output, showing what you can learn from SHOW INNODB STATUS output and how to use this info to improve MySQL Performance. To start with basics SHOW INNODB STATUS is command which prints out a lot of internal Innodb performance counters, statistics, information about [...]
eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
Have you seen recent eWeek benchmarks which test OpenSource stacks and compare them to .NET ? Here is what was compared and here are results. Results make me ask number of questions – why WAMP would perform 6 times better than LAMP ? Why Python would be faster than PHP on Windows but slower on [...]

