I published slides from my two talks from our Egypt company meeting. First one is about Sphinx search engine. The originally presentation was prepared by Andrew Aksenoff, author of Sphinx for HighLoad.ru conference, I translated it on English for our meeting. And second about Mercurial version system, the tool we decided to use for our [...]
How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition
November 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
Baron have been updating you a lot about chapter by chapter progress so I should not repeat it, instead I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about how we work on the book. Generally, quite similar to the previous book this is long process, which is probably what happens when [...]
Working on “High Performance MySQL, Second Edition”, how you can help?
August 31, 2007 By 20 Comments
As you may already have seen announcement by Baron we’re working on major rewrite of High Performance MySQL book – the most famous book about MySQL Performance on the market… which is getting old though. We’ve been slowly working on the book for over half a year now and were later joined by Arjen Lentz [...]
Getting use of Slave in MySQL Replication
February 14, 2007 By 15 Comments
MySQL Replication is asynchronous which causes problems if you would like to use MySQL Slave as it can contain stale data. It is true delay is often insignificant but in times of heavy load or in case you was running some heavy queries on the master which not take time to replicate to the slave [...]
