Just a few assorted things that I thought I would share: MySQL 5.1 rc I’m still having a problem with MySQL 5.1 hanging. I removed the innodb plugin as an experiment and now I’m pretty sure that it is a bug in MySQL. Not only is it suspicious that the same workload never caused deadlocks [...]
Just to recap – various stuff that runs Ravelry and my opinion on each: Ruby on Rails 2: Love it. Moving to 2.1 for the named scopes (and because I’m on Edge somewhere between 2 and 2.1) Thin : stable. A little nicer than Mongrel. nginx : rocks. (ie. fast, stable, does what I want, [...]
After years of development, it appears that MySQL 5.1 is going to be released at the MySQL conference next week. The timing is perfect. Our new database server is arriving on Monday and there hasn’t been a release candidate release since January. 5.1 is supposed to be faster. I’m sure that the web will be [...]
Writing the software to run a site is only part of the work – you also got to make sure that everything keeps running smoothly. Keeps your systems tuned and happy doesn’t have to be drudgery – I’ve found it to be fun and interesting work as long as you simplify and streamline by gathering [...]
