Author Archives: Jeremy Zawodny

About Jeremy Zawodny

I'm a software engineer and pilot. I work at craigslist by day, hacking on various bits of back-end software and data systems. As a pilot, I fly Glastar N97BM, Just AirCraft SuperSTOL N119AM, Bonanza N200TE, and high performance gliders in the northern California and Nevada area. I'm also the original author of "High Performance MySQL" published by O'Reilly Media. I still speak at conferences and user groups on occasion.

Congrats to RethinkDB

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

Congratulations to the RethinkDB team on their fundraising round! 2010 will be an incredibly exciting year for database technology. The amount of stored information has long been increasing exponentially, presenting unprecedented challenges for modern technology companies. Dropping RAM prices and affordable … Continue reading →

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Student Pilots: Beware of Sacramento Executive Airport

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

About three weeks ago, my wife Kathleen flew into Sacramento Executive Aiport (KSAC) as part of her solo cross-country flight. (That’s one of the final stages a student pilot goes through on the way to getting a Private Pilot Single … Continue reading →

Posted in flying | 56 Comments

NoSQL is Software Darwinism

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

In I Can’t Wait for NoSQL to Die, Ted Dziuba (who’s always good for a fun rant that includes a dose of reality) tries to make the point that real businesses use relational databases and that your startup isn’t Google. … Continue reading →

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Best Oatmeal Recipe

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

Last year I discovered the joys of slow cooked steel cut oats. Ever since trying them, I’ve never been able to buy pre-packaged, processed, and flavored oatmeal that you see in boxes of single serving packs at the grocery store. … Continue reading →

Posted in cooking | Tagged food, oatmeal | 2 Comments

This is how Open Source works

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

In Redis weekly update #1 – Hashes and… many more! Salvatore Sanfilippo (the author of Redis) describes the last week’s worth of changes to Redis. The last item is about a bug I found when setting up cross-datacenter Redis replication … Continue reading →

Posted in programming | Tagged redis | 15 Comments

First San Francisco Redis Meetup: March 25th

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

Thanks to Ted Nyman for organizing The first San Francisco Redis Meetup which will be on March 25th at the Engine Yard offices in SOMA. Last week I posted an idea to the idea board and it turned into the … Continue reading →

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New Airplane: 2005 Flight Design CTSW (N722VJ)

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

After losing our Citabria (see: Citabria N5156X Landing Gear Accident), we set about looking for a new (well a replacement) airplane. The main things we were after in the search were the following: 2 seats (more is better, but budget is an … Continue reading →

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Debugging is all about Challenging Assumptions

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

I’ve been awash in debugging a new code deployment most of the week. The gist of it, if you’re interested, is that we’re deploying a group of machines running several Redis instances (one per CPU core). Collectively they’ll serve as … Continue reading →

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Citabria N5156X Landing Gear Accident

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Jeremy Zawodny

Back on December 26th, 2009 my wife Kathleen was flying with an instructor in the Citabria that we owned half of as part of her ongoing flight training toward her Single Engine Land pilot rating. (She’s already a rated glider … Continue reading →

Posted in flying | 20 Comments

Roma for Redis Clusters