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- We took advantage of the clearer air today to go flying and have a look at the Moc Fire burn area. I've included a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… said 6 hours ago
- @JimInNC Hopefully moving in around February. Depends on how many items we encounter with long lead times. So far w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… said 7 hours ago
- @JimInNC Three, including the basement. The scaffolding is deceptive. said 8 hours ago
- The new house, as seen from across the lake earlier today in relatively smoke-free skies. Stucco to go on next week! https://t.co/dsgFmTsAgJ said 8 hours ago
- 10 day old furnace filter vs. brand new. They're pretty much the same, right? https://t.co/3X5Yz59Ytq said 1 day ago
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Redis Sharding at Craigslist
After reading Salvatore’s Redis Presharding, I thought I’d write up the sharding technique we use at Craigslist to take advantage of multiple cores, multiple hosts, and allow for painless growth (up to a point). Nodes The primary building block of … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, nosql, programming, redis
38 Comments
Webdis is Full of Awesome
I’ve long wanted a lightweight system for gathering and graphing simple performance metrics without a lot of centralized processing. I could use something like StatsD from the Etsy folks but got inspired by reading about Redis at Disqus the other … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, programming, redis, tech
3 Comments
Slides for: Fusion-io and MySQL 5.5 at Craigslist
The slides from the talk I gave at Percona Live San Francisco yesterday are now available on slideshare (hopefully the embed works here too): View more presentations from Jeremy Zawodny. Overall, I enjoyed the conference–not just meeting up folks I … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, mysql, programming, tech
6 Comments
MongoDB Data Types and Perl
In working to import a couple billion documents from MySQL into MongoDB, I’m trying to make sure I get it all right. And I recently stumbled upon one way in which I was getting to decidely wrong: data types. I … Continue reading
Posted in mongodb, programming, tech
10 Comments
When an example falls in your lap
As I recently noted, I’m giving a short talk at Percona Live about our experience with Fusion-io for MySQL at Craigslist. As is often the case, I agreed to give the talk before giving too much thought about exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, mysql, tech
8 Comments
Speaking at Percona Live in San Francisco
On Wednesday, February 16th, I’ll be attending Percona Live in San Francisco to hear about what’s new in the MySQL ecosystem and talk about our adoption of Fusion-io storage for some of our systems at Craigslist. Not only do we … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, mysql, tech
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