… sets of MySQL configuration parameters. For example, given that the front-end device is a very fast PCIe SSD, would it make…
Post: The write cache: Swap insanity tome III
April 19, 2013 By 5 Comments
…. That solves most of the swapping issues but… I recently ended up in a situation where, after having done all that… swapping is pretty bad for a cluster and we often ended up is strange, unexpected states. What was I missing? In… all saving to disk with the current time stamp in front of each line. I quickly found that the issues happened…
Post: Announce: Front End Performance Optimization
October 10, 2008 By 8 Comments
… things fast from the client prospective where our new service – front end performance optimization comes to play. We look to reduce number… and making page to start render as soon as possible. Front End performance optimization is often needed to change your site from… does not perform any slower in this case. By adding front end optimization services we are able to help to deliver great…
Post: Quick comparison of MyISAM, Infobright, and MonetDB
September 29, 2009 By 30 Comments
…” — it speaks relational algebra, and the SQL is just a front-end to it. You can talk XQuery to it, too. I… in MonetDB Assembly Language (MAL), the underlying language. An abstracted front-end is a great idea; MySQL abstracts the storage backend, but…
Comment: Web Site Optimization: FrontEnd and BackEnd
June 26, 2008 By 12 Comments
… experience. We struggle with that at dealnews.com because our front page has always just listed today’s deals. Well, we… deals is over 200 items each day. That means we end up with 300KB of HTML and 1MB of images on… problem. So, for us, we need to focus on the front end. I took as much from those talks as I did…
Comment: Web Site Optimization: FrontEnd and BackEnd
June 26, 2008 By 12 Comments
… my own e-commerce website, I found that optimizing the front-end can be quite rewarding. That it could matter that much… a firebug add-on (YSlow) to grade a site on front-end optimization. See: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
Post: Web Site Optimization: FrontEnd and BackEnd
June 26, 2008 By 12 Comments
… “slashdotted” or “techcrunched” sites which went down because their back end just was not ready. Third – Even if your backend is… projects. I would say instead the same rule as back end optimization applies here – if you spend 90% time running PHP… kindly signed for me to get up to speed with front end optimization.
Comment: How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL
January 11, 2011 By 16 Comments
… be imho. Its all about the front end, if that performs within spec and the back end is holding up, then poking the…
Comment: Web Site Optimization: FrontEnd and BackEnd
August 21, 2008 By 12 Comments
You can’t have a truly optimized front-end without starting with the back first. Completely agree, which is why I spend so much more time with the back-end usually, optimization is not only more important, but sometimes, more difficult early on.
Comment: Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication
January 31, 2012 By 22 Comments
… server load. We do that currently for our non sql front end servers, so adding the database cluster would be trivial. I…
