Archive for November, 2009

webcast – DRBD and MySQL

I’ve teamed up with O’Reilly once again to do another webcast this coming January.  In it, I’ll provide a step-by-step live tutorial of setting up DRBD with MySQL on a couple of virtual servers.  After the live demo there will be time for Q&A as well, so hope you all can tune in.

Register here:  DRBD and MySQL – An HA Match Made In Heaven

DBJ: More MySQL Scaling

In this second part of our piece on scaling, we talk about running more instances of MySQL either on a single server or multiple servers, to get faster overall response for your queries.  This will require some work with your application making decisions about where it will find its data or where it should make changes, but with some work you can drastically improve overall response for your applications.

Bigger and Better MySQL – DatabaseJournal.com

Open Insights 61 – Medicine of Austerity

In our latest newsletter we discuss what economists are dubbing the “medicine of austerity” aka paying the piper or tightening your belt.  And we think that this medicine will surely include open source technologies.

Open Insights 61 – Medicine of Austerity