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Monthly Archives: July 2010
1,250,000,000 Key/Value Pairs in Redis 2.0.0-rc3 on a 32GB Machine
Following up on yesterday’s 200,000,000 Keys in Redis 2.0.0-rc3 post, which was a worst-case test scenario to see what the overhead for top-level keys in Redis is, I decided to push the boundaries in a different way. I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in nosql, programming, tech
9 Comments
200,000,000 Keys in Redis 2.0.0-rc3
I’ve been testing Redis 2.0.0-rc3 in the hopes of upgrading our clusters very soon. I really want to take advantage of hashes and various tweaks and enhancements that are in the 2.0 tree. I was also curious about the per-key … Continue reading
Posted in programming, tech
11 Comments
Coding Outside My Comfort Zone: Front-End Hacking with jQuery and flot
To folks who’ve read my tech ramblings over the years, it’s probably no surprise that I generally avoid doing front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) like the plague. In fact, that’s probably one of the reasons I finally migrated my blog … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, programming, tech
5 Comments
MySQL 5.5.4-m3 in Production
Back in April I wrote that MySQL 5.5.4 is Very Exciting and couldn’t wait to start running it in production. Now here we are several months later and are using 5.5.4-m3 on all the slaves in what is arguably our … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, mysql, tech
34 Comments
Database Drama
There’s been a surprising amount of drama (in some circles, at least) about database technology recently. I shouldn’t be surprised, given the volume of reactions to the I Want a New Datastore post that I wrote. (Hint: I still hear … Continue reading
Posted in mysql, nosql, tech
15 Comments
Testing Redis 2.0.0 Release Canidate with Perl
I’m pretty excited about the upcoming 2.0.0 release of Redis. As you can see in the changelog, I made a few minor contributions to this release. I’m most excited about being able to perform unions and intersections with sorted sets … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, nosql, programming
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