September 2009
3 posts
Kickfire's SQL chip →
Daniel Abadi blogs about how Kickfire achieves parallelism in their FPGA-based SQL chip. Also watch Kickfire CEO, Raj Cherabuddi’s talk at MySQLConf 2008.
Btw if you’re interested in next-gen DBMSes, subscribing to Daniel Abadi is highly recommended; he’s a member of the Yale DB group which released HadoopDB.
Effective A/B Testing →
In-depth presentation on how to do A/B testing right.
MySQL and the Linux swap problem →
Even though your box might have lot of physical memory left, Linux would prefer to swap out your process so it can allocate more space for the filesystem cache. Read Smugmug and Kevin Burton’s blog posts and the comments.