Monthly Archives: April 2009

Buffered Binary Logs… 1

One of the things that has always bothered me about replication is that the binary logs are written to disk and then read from disk. There is are two threads which are for the most part, unaware of each other. One thread reads the remote binary logs, and the other writes them to disk. While [...]

Researchers Using Spinn3r 0

We’ve been providing researchers with access to Spinn3r for more than two years now. The results are really starting to land now. We’re sponsoring ICWSM this year with a 400GB snapshot. This is being used by more than 100 research groups of about 500 total researchers. There should be a few dozen more papers published [...]