SmugMug , a photos and videos publishing site, goes into Production on Open Solaris + MySQL + ZFS. Check out this story on why a Linux geek decided to move his site from Linux To Open Solaris.

Don MacAskill, chief geek and CEO of SmugMug says"  ZFS is the most amazing filesystem I’ve ever come across. Integrated volume management. Copy-on-write. Transactional. End-to-end data integrity. On-the-fly corruption detection and repair. Robust checksums. No RAID-5 write hole. Snapshots. Clones (writable snapshots). Dynamic striping. Open source software. " He is also excited about the CoolStack 5.1 stack available in Open Solaris along with …

November 3rd, I'm speaking at San Francisco MySQL Meetup - The talk will be about Scaling MySQL driven Web Sites by Sharding and Replication. This is Free event and you're surely most welcome to join. At this point I see there are some 70 people signed up and 59 spots left. BTW: This will not be exactly same sessions as on Velocity I will be adding few more slides to get into more details.

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A compilation of today's news of interest:

Sun decided to not go down the route of reviewing and accepting the patches, but are now suggesting - are you sitting down? - running multiple instances on the same hardware.

By the end of 2007, to the surprise of many of us, a guy at Nokia Research Center announced that they had ported and were about to publish the full LAMP stack running on the Symbian/S60 platform of Nokia mobile phones. They dubbed this the Personal AMP stack: PAMP, and you can run most of the popular PHP apps like Wordpress, Drupal, phpMyAdmin... out of the box on a Nokia phone now.

Today we had the opportunity to have a chat with Johan Wikman, the man leading the efforts of porting the AMP stack to Symbian. Johan works as Principal Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center and as such has also previously participated in porting other interesting things to Nokia phones, such as the Linux kernel, eventually leading to what maemo is today.

There is an interesting "it's a small world" aspect in that Johan used to study at Helsinki University of Technology about the same time as …

At my previous employer, one of the early decisions that had huge payoffs later was the SQL naming conventions. A good naming convention is more than just a nicety. It lets you write programs that don’t need to be told about the relationships among tables and columns.

There are many ways to do this, [...]

I attended the MySQL EMEA conference last thursday where I enjoyed a talk from Ivan Zoratti titled “Scaling Up, Scaling Out, Virtualization – What should you do with MySQL?”

They have changed their minds quite a bit. Virtualisation in production is no longer a solid no-no according to them (a lot of people would argue). Solaris containers, anyone?

As most of us know by now, MySQL struggles to utilise multiple cores efficiently. This has been the case for quite some time by now, and people like Google and Percona has grown tired of waiting for MySQL to fix it.

Sun decided to …

I attended the MySQL EMEA conference last thursday where I enjoyed a talk from Ivan Zoratti titled “Scaling Up, Scaling Out, Virtualization – What should you do with MySQL?”

They have changed their minds quite a bit. Virtualisation in production is no longer a solid no-no according to them (a lot of people would argue). Solaris containers, anyone?

As most of us know by now, MySQL struggles to utilise multiple cores efficiently. This has been the case for quite some time by now, and people like Google and Percona has grown tired of waiting for MySQL to fix it.

Sun decided to …

Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL On Debian Etch

GreenSQL (or greensql-fw) is a firewall for MySQL databases that filters SQL injection attacks. It works as a reverse proxy, i.e., it takes the SQL queries, checks them, passes them on to the MySQL database and delivers back the result from the MySQL database. It comes with a web interface (called greensql-console) so that you can manage GreenSQL through a web browser. This guide shows how you can install GreenSQL and its web interface on a Debian Etch server.

I visited the London installment of our MySQL European Customer conference on Thursday. In a lecture hall of 250+ attendees I found an empty seat next to a man who turned out to be Patrik Pada who is the webmaster of HSS Media. Tick, tick, tick... [sound in my head thinking there is something familiar here...]

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