June 19, 2013

Post: Give me 8 hours, and I'll help you build a better application

… to keep in memory to function well. That’s because unused rows can bloat and dilute your indexes and tables. Storage engines…’s needed only once for the table scan. Keeping those indexes small enough to fit in memory is a big step… monitoring system and ignore it when something really does go wrong. Keep it simple and monitor things that matter to your…

Post: Make your file system error resilient

…Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent 64bit flex_bg …loss for system to be “up” (potentially serving wrong data) a little bit longer ? For most …much better to disable both these auto check functions for your data partition and just check it…

Comment: Distributed Set Processing with Shard-Query

…and 8401″. This also allows effective range scans on hash indexes since the range is treated as a union of …put materialized views on every database. I support ALL aggregation functions, and Shard-Query will soon be able to add aggregate…says this can scale to any size. Please prove me wrong.