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 [...]
What would make MySQL Multiple Queries Usable ?
September 5, 2007 By 1 Comment
MySQL Has API to run Multiple Queries at once. This feature was designed mainly with saving network round trip in mind and got a little traction due to associated security risks and not significant gains in most cases. What would make MySQL Multiple Queries API more usable ?
Back from RIT2007
April 20, 2007 By 6 Comments
So I’m back from RIT2007 which took place April 16,17 in Moscow,Russia. The conference was well organized, while the conference center was a bit small for event – halls were jam packed during the breaks and there was limited sitting available for many sessions. It was great to see attendees from almost all serious Internet [...]
Speaking on RIT-2007, Moscow, Russia
March 29, 2007 By 1 Comment
I’ve been invited to speak at RIT-2007 which stands for “Russian Internet Technologies” conference. It takes place 16-17 April in Moscow, Russia. It looks like this is going to be biggest Russian conference on Internet technologies so far with many large Russian Internet projects sending their delegates. You can check out conference sessions schedule here. [...]
MySQL Consulting – Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
Sphinx Developer joins our team
January 8, 2007 By 7 Comments
We’re happy to announce Andrew Aksyonoff, developer of popular OpenSource full text search software Sphinx joins our team. Andrew will now have more time to dedicate to Sphinx development so cool new features will come sooner. Having Andrew on board we’ll be able to solve all kinds of problems related to full text search, tagging [...]
Using Sphinx as MySQL data retrieval accelerator
October 30, 2006 By 25 Comments
I’ve run into the following thread couple of days ago: Basically someone is using sphinx to perform search simply on attributes (date, group etc) and get sorted result set and claiming it is way faster than getting it with MySQL. Honestly I can well believe it for cases when you want to know number of [...]
Presentations
May 3, 2006 By
This page is not updated anymore. For new presentations, please check the presentations page on our company website. We love speaking at conferences and other events. Please contact us if you’d like us to present at yours! We can also give internal presentations for your company or group. Sphinx search engine for RDBMS Egypt, December [...]
