We often recommend to set lighttpd in front of apache to handle http requests (more about http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/05/21/speedup-your-lamp-stack-with-lighttpd/ ) , redirect dynamic requests to apache and handle static files by itself. I just gathered step-by-step instruction how to do that in 10 minutes, as it may be not so obvious.
MySQL Is back to Open Source Camp ?
May 13, 2008 By 2 Comments
Looking at Kaj’s Blog Annoucement MySQL has pulled back on the plans to release portions of the servers as close Source only. I am extremely happy to hear these news ! This is good for MySQL as a company, MySQL customers and MySQL users. I’m hoping Community feedback was serious contributer to this decision, though [...]
Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
Reading evening news and rss feeds I found interesting next sequence: Jeremy’s post “MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise” basically about some new features of MySQL will be available only for paid customers Then Kaj’s post Anthropology: Sun studies MySQL with tagline “Sun didn’t acquire MySQL to change it, but to learn [...]
State of MySQL Market and will Replication live ?
April 9, 2008 By 29 Comments
There are interesting posts these day about future of MySQL Replication by Brian Frank and Arjen. I think it very interesting to take a look at a bit bigger picture using framework from Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution. I’m not going to speak about disruption and commoditisation of Database Market, leaving this for Market talks, [...]
Using MMM to ALTER huge tables
March 27, 2008 By 11 Comments
Few months ago, I wrote about a faster way to do certain table modifications online. It works well when all you want is to remove auto_increment or change ENUM values. When it comes to changes that really require table to be rebuilt – adding/dropping columns or indexes, changing data type, converting data to different character [...]
