“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 year, [...]
Entries from October 2007
Knowing when you can fail is mandatory.
October 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: "capacity planning" · webops
Some Web Operations rules
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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.
Tags: webops