I've written a few articles on disruption over at my brother's site www.ondisruption.com. While most people think about disruption only from a technical point of view, you can find disruption across many areas, whether it's the business model, development approach, distribution etc. I've also written a couple of pieces about how disruption can impact your career and what to do about it.
At any rate, here are the links:
[Read more]It’s been a while since I’ve written about progress on the book. I actually stopped working on it as much at the beginning of the month, because on October 31st I managed to finish a first draft of the last big chapter (Scaling and High Availability)! Now I’m back to full-time work at my employer, and I’m working on the book in the evenings and weekends only. This doesn’t mean the book is close to being done, though.
greg knauss wrote ?wide vs. deep? to explain why he is not happy
being management, and what he thinks the difference is between
people well-suited to management and those that are not.
i don?t know if i agree with his explanation, but i think it is
very important for organizations to realize that there cannot be
only one career path that leads up through management. to
mysql?s
credit, the recent work that was done to standardize our job
titles and the path up the ranks acknowledges this, and there is
a non-management path for developers. i don?t think we are quite
where we need to be in terms of divorcing technical leadership
from resource management, but we are getting there.
and mysql is
hiring for all sorts of positions.
The MySQL Table Checksum, part of the MySQL Toolkit (having to be renamed soon) is an invaluable community tool for use with MySQL. Most sites or installations of any volume will use MySQL Replication for one purpose or another, be it for read scalability, backups, testing, upgrading etc.
Why is it needed?
There are two primary compelling reasons. First, MySQL
replication is an asynchronous process and there is no absolute
guarantee that the Master Database and the Slave Database are the
same (By definition that can be different). Second, MySQL does not provide
any tools relating to checking, managing, reporting differences.
Luckily the community has addressed this present lack of product
feature in current …
The MySQL Table Checksum , part of the MySQL Toolkit (having to be renamed soon ) is an invaluable community tool for use with MySQL. Most sites or installations of any volume will use MySQL Replication for one purpose or another, be it for read scalability, backups, testing, upgrading etc.
Welcome to the 70th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. In honour of the start of cold-and-flu season, we start with an item on blob streaming. Paul McCullagh, the developer of the PBXT storage engine for MySQL, has made available his presentation on the BLOB streaming project, on his PrimeBase XT blog. [...]
Last week, Hyperic hosted a gaming party at their offices, with plenty of open source people there from MySQL, MuleSource, JasperSoft and others. Ross Mason, co-founder of MuleSource, flew in all the way from Malta, just to play some Wii Tennis. (Ok, maybe he did have some other meetings in town, but I'm sure this was the highlight.) While I was quickly eliminated in the Wii Tennis matches, I had a good time playing the latest version of Guitar Hero III. Not as good as Javier, who obviously is not busy enough given his 200 note streaks, but still respectable... READ MORE
mysqlsla v1.7a has been released. It fixes a strange bug for general logs with connection IDs greater than 10 million.
The 1.5.2 release of innotop contained two bugs, one very minor. The other was a crash because of the new functionality that aggregates results across many connections. I fixed them and released version 1.6.0, which I consider stable and ready for everyone to use. (My version naming convention for innotop is that even-numbered minor versions are for production use; odd-numbered, such as 1.5.2, are the development branch. That's why I release them under the innotop-devel package).
Your comments are welcome for the 1.8 roadmap.