MySQL Performance Blog
I have recently been involved in diagnosing the reasons behind OOM invocation that would kill the MySQL server process. Of course these servers were primarily running MySQL. As such the MySQL server process was the one with the largest amount of memory…
28 April 2014Hacker News
It seems as if all web developers are lately aiming at reducing the size of the content delivered to the browser. It is in fact a big challenge and optimizing a web site content delivery might imply a great deal of tweaks and tricks to be successfully…
27 April 2014Hacker News
By now everyone knows about the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability: a missing bounds check in one of the most popular TLS implementations has made millions of Web servers (and more) leak all sorts of sensitive information from memory. This can leak login…
27 April 2014Planet Mozilla
Finally another technical post, this one is about my adventures in attempting to extend the built-in Map object in JavaScript to extend the functionality. As background, there are two reasons we'd want this: 1. In the chat backend we currently use…
27 April 2014Hacker News
If you ever had to port localStorage based code to IndexedDB you have been confronted to Javascript's biggest flaw; its asynchronous system is leaky. Once you have an asynchronous method, every other method that calls it must be asynchronous as well. You…
25 April 2014Hacker News
Facebook Notes allows users to include tags. Whenever a tag is used, Facebook crawls the image from the external server and caches it. Facebook will only cache the image once however using random get parameters the cache can be by-passed and the feature…
25 April 2014MySQL Performance Blog
While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies have typically been missing from the picture. The community has produced many good products to fill in this gap, but…
25 April 2014Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
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25 April 2014MySQL Performance Blog
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some users thought it was not initially possible because with the default [crayon-5358bbab35256083738255-i/] options…
24 April 2014Hacker News
Test-first fundamentalism is like abstinence-only sex ed: An unrealistic, ineffective morality campaign for self-loathing and shaming. It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better world of…
23 April 2014