I’ve already wrote a few times about various projects using Sphinx with MySQL for scalable Full Text Search applications. For example on BoardReader we’re using this combination to build search against over 1 billion of forum posts totaling over 1.5TB of data handling hundreds of thousands of search queries per day. The count of forum [...]
Top 5 Wishes for MySQL
About a week ago Marten send me email pointing to his article published on Jays Blog (Come on Marten, it is time for you to get your own blog). I should have replied much earlier but only found time to do that now. So here is my list 1. Be Pluggable Unlike many OpenSource projects [...]
Back from RIT2007
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
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
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.
BoardReader – Forum Search Engine
One may have notice we were not blogging too much recently, this is because we were quite busy, mainly building BoardReader.com – Search Engine which indexes tens of thousands of forums from all over the world. This project was built by us as consulting project so too bad we do not own it completely but [...]
Life Beyond MySQL
When I was leaving MySQL I wrote I will be doing some Web projects on my own, besides doing MySQL Consulting. I think some people thought I am just using that as an excuse and really I will only do consulting. So I’m pretty happy to announce my first project. NNSEEK Is NewsGroup search engine, [...]
Presentations
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 [...]

