The other day I blogged about using super capacitors to power DRAM while write caching RAID controllers were powered off. Looks like one already exists: EcoStor battery-free alternative for cache back up – the 2330 uses an environmentally friendly, “green” battery-free alternative for cache back up, that leverages a combination of super capacitors and compact [...]
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This is pretty cool… we’re shipping a similar feature in Spinn3r 3.0… The interesting question is how do you use an application status app when you lose power to an entire datacenter? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REgUHZMTaa8&hl=en&fs=1]
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I’ve been trying to buy this desk for a few weeks now. Apparently, all the desks made are either cheap and about to fall apart or they’re circular, curved, too short or have other problems. This guy on flickr has the best desk ever. It’s called the Kalidro and sold by Steelcase. The problem is [...]
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Google Blog Search shipped with an update a few months back to index the full HTML of each new blog post. The only problem is that they indexed the full HTML and not the article content: I wanted to give everyone a brief end-of-the-year update on the blogroll problem. When we switched blogsearch to indexing [...]
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The more databases you have in your cluster the greater the probability they’re going to fail. It’s basically MTBF/N until you have one of these boxes crash. If you have 10k machines expect multiple failures per day. If you’re performing realtime writes to these databases you can lose a DB in the middle of a [...]
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The Sun Fishworks guys were nice enough to invite me for a demo of their new 7000 series storage device. We bang the heck out of our IO systems here at Spinn3r so having more options is always welcome. Bryan Cantrill, one of the original DTrace developers, worked on this bad boy so there’s obviously [...]
This is so 200: A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them. For instance, “404″ – the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage – has come to mean “clueless”. Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green says that some such terms and abbreviations come about because [...]
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Update: This post hit Reddit and now has 10k views. This post was written for the MySQL community who pretty much already read my blog and know that I support MySQL (we use it in production, document bugs, contribute patches, etc). While Postgres is a great database, MySQL still has a number of features that [...]
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These are a few features I want to see implemented in InnoDB this year. We need them for production so we’re probably going to throw down some cash to see this happen. The patches will have to be Open Source of course. If there are any companies out there that would like to co-sponsor these [...]
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