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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
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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
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Redis 2.2 replication consistency with maxmemory and LRU
We’ve been running a version of Redis 2.2 RC at Craigslist for a few months now and it has been flawless. It has rapidly become the backbone of one of our internal systems. When I upgraded from the 2.0 series … Continue reading
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Sharding is Hard
Reading the Foursqure/MongoDB post-mortem I’m struck by a few things. First, the folks at 10gen are doing a great job of being very open and upfront about what happened and how they hope to solve this problem so that it … Continue reading
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Always Test with Real Data
As I previously noted, I’m in the midst of converting some data (roughly 2 billion records) into documents that will live in a MongoDB cluster. And any time you move data into a new data store, you have to be … Continue reading
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How I Comment Perl Code
I realized a few days ago that I have a particular way of commenting my Perl code. I wonder if I’m unique in this way, or if these are habits I’ve picked up reading others’ code over the years. A … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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