… MySQL than might be apparent. But after the acquisitions by Sun and Oracle, O’Reilly found it more difficult to promote… control. The sessions, for example, were selected by a committee of independent MySQL experts. We invited community members as well as… stewardship of the event. We pledged to keep many of the conversations private, but we can say that at every step of the way…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… to 256 way…. Besides discussion on the thread itself I had a lot of private comments in my mail from Sun/MySQL employees… marketing materials so this work now made it to the Sun blueprint making it recommended reference architecture. It is also interesting… back to my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this…
Post: Scaling to 256-way the Sun way
November 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
…the number 256 – this is not number of Cores… this is number of hardware threads which is not …you have everything absolutely automated in the Google way I do not think you would enjoy running… not get me wrong. The multi-threading architecture Sun has is great for many applications… however it…
Post: MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus
March 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
… little community developed features integrated into it. Being acquired by Sun, I hope MySQL will not need to desperately show growth… can vote on the different tasks. This is one of the ways you can help MySQL to understand what you need from… to add worklog tasks/feature requests which would be natural way of getting community ideas and with voting and commenting you would…
Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
… well – this would leave small companies to seek for other ways to get the service they need ? As company gets ready… these done for thousands or tens of thousands in some cases. As MySQL merge with Sun progresses I do not expect it… with Marten – the deal with Sun is great news for MySQL and will steer a lot of large fish in MySQL nets…
Comment: Finding an optimal balance of I/O, CPU, and RAM for MySQL
May 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
… originally joining Sun, which you guys were pretty critical of: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/11/11/scaling-to-256-way-the-sun-way/ Slightly different scalability bottlenecks discussed, but both falling back to the good old “oh just run more of them…
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 54 Comments
… Sun servers versus commodity hardware ten years ago. However people moved to commodity hardware in droves. Another way of looking at the question of… which way to go. You’ve illustrated the cons clearly. The pros though include flexibility in disaster recovery, easier roll out of… cloud servers you don’t. What’s more managers unsure of their business direction can tryout things, knowing that can shift…
Comment: 7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
December 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
… that one way to solve this would be for the community to branch MySQL 5.0 without the permission of Sun/MySQL and… end is probably good for MySQL too. Drizzle is another way to solve this but I don’t see this hitting…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… is bad and if you’re into thousands and tens of thousands of servers server failures are becoming common place so it… want your data storage to be. This is also why Sun is so proud about checksums on the file system level…. There are many ways to loose data on RAID system even if you’re running RAID6 with couple of hot spare. The…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
… a profit — part of our business is custom MySQL development, after all — but we discount it. The second way is when people… and make something greater than the sum of the parts. When it comes to Sun/MySQL, we actively and openly talk to… are at the core. Funding its development in a fair way is a great balancing act, and finding a balance that…
