… up needing much more workers, especially dealing with slow web services. Timeouts. Web services might get slower themselves or network connectivity to them might… frequently you can call Web Services. So you might want to cache data on Disk – in files or MySQL tables. There are multiple… all. There are many other interesting challenges and questions in Web Services world, so I should write more on this topic sometimes.
Post: Should MySQL and Web Server share the same box ?
October 16, 2006 By 9 Comments
… interesting question which I thought it would be good to write about. There are obviously benefits and drawbacks for each of… in MySQL+Apache pairs or split MySQL And Web Server and place them on different boxes. Generally using separate boxes for MySQL and Web Servers… when shared MySQL and Web server makes sense is Web Services architecture when you can have certain boxes providing you with some simple “Services” – these…
Post: Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People
June 15, 2007 By 9 Comments
… great MySQL Expert but have no experience with MySQL Cluster, other may be good with MySQL Cluster but have no idea how to write…, increasing complication will mean more services will come to us for Consulting Services Do I see MySQL replaced in its space any time… bunch of interfaces to talk to MySQL cluster as PHP session storage or as a REST Web Service, which are all rather interesting…
Post: MySQL - to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
… someone who has not got a clue is writing for someone who does not even pretend. I … more obvious. For Web shops and for most of enterprises you can use MySQL for free same as … about MySQL for Enterprises speaking about MySQL with full pack of services from MySQL AB. Obviously this is how MySQL AB …
Post: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 54 Comments
… will show the performance of two real customer systems running web applications. Let’s begin with a system running in a… hosting provider’s datacenter. This application is a popular blogging service, running on a generic midrange Dell-class server. The disks… the seventies of milliseconds, and write latencies in the teens. Note how variable the quality of service from these EBS volumes is…
Post: State of MySQL Market and will Replication live ?
April 9, 2008 By 29 Comments
…- Top web sites like Google, Yahoo, FaceBook have to have to provide online service to … (like scaling Writes with replication or dealing with large data sets). Web crowd simplicity …MySQL side we have further development of MySQL Cluster to be more usable for web apps as well as development of MySQL…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
… online business. The guy also tells me I can write to the Server Support team by email and they … is a must for any reasonable customer service. This was the case in MySQL and Tom Basil had a magic … match my timing so I went ahead and returned web site back to old server which happily was still …
Post: PHP Large result sets and summary tables.
July 6, 2007 By 8 Comments
… space) like crazy. Why ? Because by default mysql_query uses mysql_store_result C library call and buffers … etc. This can be fixed by increasing net_write_timeout variable on the server so it gives …processes, ie if you need to check data against web services and so on – in this case the overhead …
Post: MySQL Sizing questions
June 23, 2006 By 4 Comments
…the order of magnitude. Seriously in MySQL Consulting practice it would not be…what hardware you need for ecommerce web site with 100.000 visitors per… search services are you going to offer ? Is there any extra services such as…if you are wrong. I should write about some techniques and formulas which…
Post: New MySQL Community Release Policies published
August 9, 2007 By 9 Comments
…MySQL Professional Services Team and Monty himself but still the process just stalled. It really looks like MySQL…will be actively migrated to. Many large MySQL Web customers become too large and careful …of relationships with Linux Distributions. As Kaj writes 4 Yearly Source Released of Community …
