Comments for Code Monkey Island

Comment on So you want to run MySQL on SSDs? by Casey

Casey — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:42:48 +0000

Just a heads up - this post from last year and the Intel 320 is still a fine product but no longer the best choice. (I'd still go with Intel)

Comment on Quick things by Salman

Salman — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:08:30 +0000

Curious, how did you integrate sencha touch on the mobile site? Did you actually use Rails formats or did you end up creating a seperate app/controllers for the streamlined mobile view?

Comment on Quick things by Jeff Putz

Jeff Putz — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:38:44 +0000

Great post as usual. I missed the revenue post... interesting long-tail approach. Glad to see it works!

Comment on Saving money by putting a web cache in front of Amazon S3 by hassan

hassan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:48:08 +0000

i need exactly the same thing as you've implemented, though i dont understand how you'd configure nginx to get an image from s3 server and cache it locally if not available.

What i need is basically:

image requested serve from nginx if available get from s3, save locally and serve from nginx ..

any ideas?

Comment on So you want to run MySQL on SSDs? by Checkmate

Checkmate — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:53:22 +0000

May I ask did you install Linux OS on the SSD array or the HDD array?

Did you put /var/ on SSD or HDD?

If possible, can you also share your my.cnf for this particular setup?

Comment on So you want to run MySQL on SSDs? by mimo

mimo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:46:56 +0000

Interesting article! You have obviously done a lot of background research. I am about to set up a new database server and it would be interesting to see some follow up. Have you been running this for a while now in production and what sort of performance improvements have you seen?

Comment on So you want to run MySQL on SSDs? by Delphy

Delphy — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:22:40 +0000

Thanks for the post Casey - running MySQL on both SSDs and traditional hard drives sounds like the kind of thing I'm going to be doing very soon, so this is an interesting read.

Comment on Saving money by putting a web cache in front of Amazon S3 by Casey

Casey — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:10:36 +0000

Hi Jimmy,

Yep - all of our files are already set with the proper headers directing browsers to cache them forever.

We serve a lot of image-heavy traffic.

Comment on Saving money by putting a web cache in front of Amazon S3 by Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:13:41 +0000

I think you need to put cache directives on the files you serve, it could save a lot of money..

http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/#url=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.ravelry.com_2F&mobile=false&rule=LeverageBrowserCaching

Comment on Saving money by putting a web cache in front of Amazon S3 by Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:24:53 +0000

Great post--we're on S3 as well, and I imagine as we scale we're going to run into similar issues.

You could also try some local caching, but I guess that depends on browser version.

Do users lose session state on a shutdown?