May 18, 2013

MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting

With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]

Election night

Today was epoch day in American history. Maybe even most important day this year, but it’s not what I’d like to write about here. What does it mean for US citizens and all other people around the world? We know, but what does it mean for us – IT professionals and/or internet portals serving news [...]

Should MySQL and Web Server share the same box ?

This is interesting question which I thought it would be good to write about. There are obviously benefits and drawbacks for each of methods. Smaller applications usually start with single server which has both MySQL and Web server on it. In this case it is not usually the question but once application growths larger and [...]