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Using ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE to improve MySQL Replication ...
There reason why ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE improves performance is that it will only update the fields that needs to be updated. So if MySQL ...
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On Write Caching Controllers and Distributed Database Failure ...
On Write Caching Controllers and Distributed Database Failure Models. December 17, 2008 in mysql. The more databases you have in your cluster the greater ...
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MySQL and the The Death of RAID « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
Other scale out shops which don’t have access to such toys have built out sharded MySQL installations. LiveJournal, Flickr, Facebook. ...
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My Kingdom for Computed Linux Filesystem Page Cache Efficiency ...
Feb 19, 2007 ... I’m not sure that’s the actual name of the cache, it might be “page cache”, but that might just be me misunderstanding…you’ve been doing ...
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A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer or One Laptop Per Child « Kevin ...
I think the $100 dollar laptop is just the first of 3 parts necessary to get to a rudimentary Stephensonesque primer. ...
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Yahoo Invites Bloggers to Offsite « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
Hm… my invite must have been lost in the mail. I think Yahoo is going to seriously spank Google by Q2… If I had any money I’d buy Yahoo ...
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Papers from Web Search and Data Mining 2008 (WSDM 2008) « Kevin ...
Papers from Web Search and Data Mining 2008 (WSDM 2008). February 11, 2008 in clustering, search, web2.0. The papers from WSDM 2008 aren’t yet available on ...
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Yahoo Mail Beta Preview (with screenshots) - Beware Google ...
screenshot I just got a beta preview of Yahoo Mail and all I have to say is that they’ve done an amazing job. Very slick user interface. ...
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Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
I seem to enjoy all things happy fun ball related. It’s a shame NBC won’t allow the Youtube clip to stay online. Possibly related posts: (automatically ...
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RAM vs SSD Based Databases « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
SSDs have a finite performance of about 100MB/s for reads. The only time you should throw money at all RAM based scenarios is when you ned ...