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Mozilla has a great presence at SCALE11x, the 11th Annual Southern California Linux Expo. This annual conference is completely volunteer run and one of the best Linux conferences around. Mozilla sponsored Friday’s DevOps Day LA and were part of the … Continue reading
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On a RHEL 6.3 server, we are running MySQL 5.1 (not MariaDB, not the Percona patched version, plain old regular MySQL): $ rpm -qa | egrep -i “percona|maria|mysql” | sort mysql-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64 mysql-libs-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64 mysql-server-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64 percona-toolkit-2.1.8-1.noarch percona-xtrabackup-2.0.5-499.rhel6.x86_64 perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64 $ We went to … Continue reading
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My Mozilla coworkers Ben Kero and Dan Maher gave a standing-room only presentation at Linux Conf AU about “How to Use Puppet Like an Adult”. It was fantastic! Data != logic Business DATA does not belong in modules, but business … Continue reading
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This is not quite a liveblog, but a set of notes about the points I found most interesting in this morning’s Linux Conf AU keynote, given by Dr. Andrew “bunnie” Huang, best known for Hacking the Xbox and developing the … Continue reading
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At Linux Conf AU, “Think, Create and Critique Design” by Andy Fitzsimon… HTML slides design checklist Elements and principles of design. Design is like cooking Ingredients create flavors that influence a meal in that way: Elements create principles influencing a … Continue reading
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In MySQL 5.6, it looks like IN() subqueries are optimized even better than they are in MariaDB 5.5. Here’s a typical IN() subquery, using the sakila sample database (query taken from slide 6 of the presentation about new MySQL 5.6 … Continue reading
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When I heard that MySQL 5.6 was implementing EXPLAIN for writes (INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,REPLACE), I was pretty excited. Then I heard that MySQL 5.6 also was implementing a JSON format for EXPLAIN and my thought was “I do not care about that!” … Continue reading
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For the past few days, I have been upgrading a few servers. We are going from Percona’s patched MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5 (the subquery optimization is excellent, and we have lots of subqueries). Our process involves upgrading a slave … Continue reading
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I am happy and proud to announce that there will be an Open Database Camp held at this year’s Northeast LinuxFest! The venue is at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA (“our fair city”), and will take place Saturday, March 16 … Continue reading
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Being the end of the quarter, there has been some planning going on this month about goals for Q1 2013 as well as meeting our goals for Q4 2012. Our biggest goal was to stop using MySQL 5.0, which we … Continue reading