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The failure of “Web 2.0″

I think this post by Greg Linden (pointing to two other posts, one by Jason Calcanis and the other by Xeni Jardin) highlights the fundamental problem with “Web 2.0″, which is that any system that gains...

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Read replication with MySQL

I have been following the thread about the death of read replication over on the Planet MySQL weblog with interest. In with this issue the notion of caching is thrown in to illustrate that it can be...

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Read replication with MySQL – part deux

Following up on my last post on read replication with MySQL, I read this post by Greg Linden on the subject of caching which mirrors my thinking on the matter (except that his is better written): My...

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MySQL engines, MyISAM vs. Innodb

I think Narayan Newton does a very good job of summarizing the pros and cons of MyISAM and Innodb in this post “MySQL engines, MyISAM vs. Innodb”. I have seen a lot written about this before but I...

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Crawling is indeed harder than it looks

Greg Linden (a must-read blog because he picks up new publications very quickly) has a good post aggregating a number of papers from WWW 2008 on crawling and why crawling is hard. I wrote the version...

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Scaling MySQL at Facebook

By way of Greg Linden, some interesting notes and figures from various high traffic web sites on scaling MySQL. As Greg points out, Facebook’s strategy is to partition the data and spread it across a...

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Caching and system optimization

Greg Linden mentions an interesting paper out of Yahoo Research and presented at SIGIR 2008 “ResIn: A Combination of Results Caching and Index Pruning for High-performance Web Search Engines”. The...

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MySQL 5.1.29 Released

MySQL 5.1.29 was just released, the final release candidate on the way to general availability. I have been running 5.1.28 for a while with no issues. The main change I see here (for me at least) is...

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MySQL 5.1 Goes GA, Finally…

I was happy to see that MySQL 5.1 went GA on November 27th, it has taken a very long time to get there. I use it for my current project, in fact I selected it over 5.0 in the expectation that it would...

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Detecting Spam just from HTTP headers

By way of Geeking with Greg, a paper on detecting spam just from HTTP headers, “Predicting Web Spam with HTTP Session Information” (PDF). This is very interesting and I will be taking a close look at...

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