… for Commodity People, and people seems to agree with me. Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few people would like to be called commodity…
Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… made thinking about commodity hardware and really smart people, while in most cases tasks have to be solved with commodity hardware and commodity people. RAID… the infrastructure because this defines a lot what type of hardware and in which fashion can be used. You can build… Jeremy on Commodity does not mean Crapy thing. There is usually a sweet spot when you can get well performing hardware with…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM etc) you would see box failing once…’re designing the system so it can tolerate hardware failures should we bother about hardware quality at all ? The answer is yes… expect in production. Requirement to have Spare hardware is also the reason why commodity inexpensive hardware is often better choice. If you have…
Comment: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… made thinking about commodity hardware and really smart people, while in most cases tasks have to be solved with commodity hardware and commodity people.â…. The software infrastructure needs to become stable enough so that commodity people can use them.
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… because commodity x86 based hardware was used for the test. So it is not just about Sun it is about OpenSource hardware on Commodity Hardware… Tom compares results to are not OpenSource and on the hardware of the different class so it is really hard to… very interesting to see for example results on the same hardware just running PostgreSQL instead of MySQL or having Sun box…
Comment: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
“I think to many considerations are being made thinking about commodity hardware and really smart people, while in most cases tasks have to be solved with commodity hardware and commodity people.” Exactly.
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 54 Comments
… could be said for Sun servers versus commodity hardware ten years ago. However people moved to commodity hardware in droves. Another way of looking…
Post: Small things are better
October 8, 2006 By 15 Comments
… can get corrupted because of MySQL bugs, OS Bugs or hardware bugs, misconfiguration or failures. Sometimes corruption kind be mild, so… component, such as piece of hardware or software can fail, even if this piece of hardware has some internal redundancy by itself… size per system (yet another reason to like medium end commodity hardware) makes it faster to recover, smaller tables allow per table…
Post: KISS KISS KISS
March 1, 2009 By 7 Comments
… in a month is attempted to be sharded. Remember as commodity hardware is advancing the size of the application when you really… do just fine with single “cluster” even on the current hardware for several years. Replication Optimization People often get scared with…. Google guys tells us single MySQL server on a good hardware has MTBF somewhere between 1000 and 2000 days. This is…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… best of the component level. As you can see Everything – Hardware, Virtualization, OS, Database Server, Web Server are all different. This… which is hardware/software configuration which is chosen. $200K per box and 830W is probably a lot more than commodity hardware most of…
