http://blog.mozilla.com/mark Bit blending and other activities. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:36:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Graph Server, your one stop shop for all things performance, has gotten a little unwieldy around the database.  The underlying tables have recently passed a milestone - a billion rows.  The raw disk footprint is 108GB as of today (and it's MyISAM even), making it - by an order ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/09/17/cleaning-up-the-graph-server-database/ The Internet is full of stuff.  When you get right down to it, one of the amazing things about the low cost of entry to writing software is that we can end up with such a diverse ecosystem.  If you've ever tried to pick software to power a wiki, blog, ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/06/04/databases-and-web-applications/ I will admit in advance, this post is based on only a few days of working with MySQL Proxy.  I've emailed the author a couple of days ago, but not heard back yet, and I'm stumped as to why this isn't working as advertised.  Theoretically it supports read/write splitting of ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/02/25/mysql-proxy-so-promising-but-not-quite-there/ Dealing with a setup where most things are based around huge spikes is interesting.  It's different from my previous work at Six Apart where generally we had daily peaks and troughs but there was rarely a case where we could say "this is going to cause an order of magnitude ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/02/08/release-parties-and-database-load./ In the first of what is sure to be many similar posts, today I'm going to write a little bit about an issue that was faced two weeks back.  For lack of any particular projects (my third day on the job, they were still letting me warm up and poke ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/01/30/applied-diagnostics-part-1./ I tend towards the verbose, and if you stick around to this blog (and I manage to write in it) then you will probably become familiar with this.  (This is the end of the only nod to the apologetic I will ever make for my writing style.) Questions are welcome.  If ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mark/2008/01/22/an-introduction-of-sorts./