October 2007

Knowing when you can fail is mandatory.

October 11, 2007

“Do you know when your database layer will fall over and die ? At how many QPS (queries per second) will your application fall prey to slowness, corruption, replication issues, or other sorts of badness ?” I asked that question of the audience when giving a talk on capacity planning at the MySQL conference last [...]

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Some Web Operations rules

October 5, 2007

I don’t think I know Jon Prall, but I’m sure I must have seen him “around” in this small world of social media websites. He’s got a list of his 85 rules of Web Operations, some of which I agree with wholeheartedly. Reminds me to get #42 and #43 done one of these days.

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