Archive for January, 2009
Socorro Database Partitioning is Coming
How big can a table in a database get? Well, the answer varies by database, for most modern databases, the answer is "really huge". That's what we've going in Socorro, some honking big tables. Queries can get slow on big tables. Sure you can add indexing to prevent having to scan the whole thing for the most common queries, but you can't index every column without slowing performance elsewhere and using up ever more disk space. Indexes can get really huge, too. tables divided into sub tables queries optimized to use smaller subtables ad hoc queries sped up ... Read More »
Enter the LizardFeeder
The Mozilla Tree (Be sure to check out the large version.) For the punchline first, go check out what just went live at feeds.mozilla.com. The rest of this entry is the back-story. You see, behind Firefox is Mozilla, and behind Mozilla is a community. And the Mozilla community acts a lot like an ecosystem, which can be visualized as a kind of living tree—not to confused with the mozilla-central tree. Oh yeah, and Mozilla is the name ... Read More »
