I found Dennis the Menace, he now has a job as system administrator for a hosting company. Scenario: client has a problem with a server becoming unavailable (cause unknown) and has it restarted. MySQL had some page corruption in the InnoDB tablespace. The hosting provider, being really helpful, goes in as root and first deletes [...]
Filed under: Good practice / Bad practice by arjen on Monday, October 31, 2011 | Social tagging: destruction > helpful > hosting > InnoDB > logfile > mysql > recovery > sysadmin > tablespace
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In 2007, Etsy made a big bet on homegrown middleware to help with the site’s scalability. A half-year after it was taken live, the company decided to abandon it. As a senior software engineer at Etsy put it, “if you’re doing something ‘clever,” you’re probably doing it wrong.” Read the full article at Arstechnica.com I [...]
Filed under: Good practice / Bad practice by arjen on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Social tagging: architecture > design > enterprise > middleware > mysql > scalability > scaling > stored procedures
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