Archive for the 'scalability' Category

Coding Horror: Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. "Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this…

Coding Horror: Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. "Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this…

High Scalability – High Scalability – Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

High Scalability – High Scalability – Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

On moving from CouchDB to Riak

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

another article about migration to Riak

On moving from CouchDB to Riak

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

another article about migration to Riak

On moving from CouchDB to Riak

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

another article about migration to Riak

HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Friday, May 6th, 2011

HA Proxy [synthetic] benchmarks on 10Gbit traffic. Linux network stack is the bottle neck here, not HAProxy, i.e. you can 10G line rate on big frames and few connections.

HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Friday, May 6th, 2011

MySQL Benchmarks – MySQL 5.0.92 vs 5.1.55 vs 5.5.10 vs Percona 5.1.55 vs Percona 5.5.8 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 | vbtechsupport.com

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cor…