April 2009
2 posts
“Tokutek storage engine for MySQL: uses fractal trees”
– Detailed review of Tokutek storage engine | MySQL Performance Blog Uses something called fractal trees as a replacement for B-Trees and this helps make insertions less costly. The comments on the blog point to the MIT research which resulted in Tokutek.
Optimizing eventmachine code for Ruby/MRI's GC →
Really cool account of a 6-line bugfix to the eventmachine code resulting from a quick post-lunch debugging session. This should give anyone a high :)