I was complaining in an earlier post that I have problems with linux style installation.
I found a company that can help me solve that!
BitRock makes open source software easier to use by providing a complete automated solution for Open Source Application Deployment.
Its quite cool and they have a LAMP stack installer here.


Now I am suggesting that someone at Erlang does it too. They have a Lyme stack which is Linux + Yaws + Mnesia + Erlang. (a …

Finally!

Buildbot access for libmemcached:

http://build.tangent.org:8010/

This has taken way too much time. I have been dinking with it every so often to see if I can get it to work but have made almost no traction on it.

No luck, until now!

What does this mean? It means I can now get regression tests from different platforms on each push. AKA less broken pushes, more testing (for those in the internal MySQL world, think "open source poll based pushbuild").

I've got some hardware to run this, but I could use more slaves to do testing. Leave me a message or drop me a piece of email if you want to add a host for testing. I lack specifically Windows, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Solaris (any …

I like this item on the MySQL Conference program: Falcon for InnoDB Users. What I find of specific interest is the abstract:Falcon is MySQL?s new transactional storage engine, currently in beta. Falcon, however, is not InnoDB and was not designed as a drop in replacement.

The talk will discuss the architectural and philosophical differences between Falcon and InnoDB; some of the operational differences, where users can expect to see significant performance differences; and the problems that may be encountered when switching between InnoDB and Falcon.That's the plain truth, and it's very significant. Falcon is indeed not a [drop-in] replacement for InnoDB. Earlier on it was kind-of presented that way by MySQL Marketing, basically responding to the Oracle acquisition of InnoDB. Strategically, yes Falcon is fully owned by MySQL, so that was …

Performance tuning is one of the top disciplines (if not THE top discipline) that database professionals want to excel at. Being able to take a system that's running sluggish and turn it into one that's running as fast as a scalded dog is a talent that's part art and part science, but whatever the combination necessary to make it happen, there will always be strong demand for folks who are good at it.

Speaks for itself... (thanks Stephen Thorne for spotting this item)

Some of you have noticed Kickfire, a new sponsor at this year’s MySQL Conference and Expo. Like Keith Murphy, I have been involved with them for a while now. This article explains the basics of how their technology is different from the current state of the art in complex queries on large amounts of data. Kickfire is developing a MySQL appliance that combines a pluggable storage engine (for MySQL 5.

On his way to MySQL Users Conference Andrew will stop by in Moscow, Russia and give a talk about Sphinx current features, development plans, and deployment use cases.

Interesting enough the meeting will take place at Moscow State University, Computer Science Faculty - my "Alma Mater" in the same building and even same room which I used to study.

P.S Andrew will stay for some time in the SF Bay Area after MySQL Users Conference so if there is anyone who would like to meet Andrew in person let me know. Depending on number of people interested I would try to setup date and space.

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Today, I missed on an awesome opportunity: to play golf later this month with Scott McNealy. Scott held the title of 'best golfer among top executives' for eight straight years.

I was made the offer to play golf today at our weekly manager's meeting. Why will I miss it? Because I will be in California, speaking at the MySQL Conference.

There are several Sun related interesting events happening in New York during the time I will be in California for the MySQL conference. This would have been a great chance for me to mingle with the top executives and talent at Sun.

I feel sad for missing this opportunity but very excited as the …

Yesterday, I had a very yummy lunch (Seared Halibut at Gotham Bar and Grill) with a team from Sun including Al Ballerini, Anthony Mazzei, Steve Spitz and Vasu Prakash.

The discussions were very interesting and informational. Some of the topics (that I am allowed to discuss publicly) were PNFS, QFS, LDAP for large scale authentication, Sun's new servers developed with Fujitsu and Sun's storage solutions.

Architecture wise, I was able to gain some more insight into UltraSparc T1/T2, Sparc M series, and M1 vs M2 architecture. Yes, there was clarification needed every time someone said T2 and T1 to differentiate T1000s and T2000s from …

If you’re managing a variety of different MySQL servers, it’s hard sometimes to know if a problem you’re experiencing is being caused by a bug or if it’s a different issue altogether.  I really like what our Enterprise Tools’ team has done in the latest release of the Enterprise Monitor - they’ve now got an Upgrade Advisor that scans your MySQL server farm and tells you if a particular server needs to be upgraded with respect to critical issues (crash bugs, security, etc.)  You can schedule this to occur on a regular basis so you don’t have to remember to do it.  Nice. 

Check out Rob Young’s dev zone article for more details.