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Did you know I am going to be at Velocity?

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Moon

Well, neither did I until today. HA!
Velocity is a new O’Reilly conference dedicated to “Optimizing Web Performance and Scalability”.  It starts next Monday.  Yesterday I was contacted by Adam Jacobs of HJK Solutions about taking part in ... [More] a panel discussion about what happens when success comes suddenly to a web site.  I think he thought [...] [Less]

MemProxy 0.1

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Moon

MemProxy 0.1 is out!  It has taken me a while, but I have finally gotten around to releasing the code that I credited with saving us during a Yahoo! mention.  It is a caching proxy “server” that uses memcached for storing the cache.  I put server in quotes because it is really just a PHP [...]

in_array is quite slow

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Moon

So, we had a cron job hanging for hours.  No idea why.  So, I started debugging.  It all came down to a call to in_array().  See, this job is importing data from a huge XML file into MySQL.  After it is done, we want to compare the data we just added/updated to the data in [...]

Thoughts on the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo

Posted 5 months ago by Brian Moon

Well, it has been almost a month.  I know I am late to the blogosphere on my thoughts.  Just been busy.
Again this year, the Phorum team was invited to be a part of the DotOrg Pavilion.  What is that?  Basically they just give expo floor space to open source projects.  It is cool.  We had [...]

Interview with WebDevRadio

Posted 5 months ago by doughboy

While I was at the MySQL Conference, I sat down with Michael Kimsal of WebDevRadio and recapped the two talks that I gave at the conference.  I have uploaded the slides so you can follow along if you want.
One to a Cluster - The evolution of the dealnews.com architecture.
MySQL Tips and Tricks - Some simple [...]

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