If you’re using MySQL checkout 5 ways to boost MySQL scalability. Object Relational Mappers ORMs are popular among developers but not among performance experts.  Why is that?  Primarily these two engineers experience a web a

Deploying new code that includes changes to your database schema doesn’t have to be a process fraught with stress and burned fingers. Follow these five tips and enjoy a good nights sleep. 1. Deploy with Roll Forward & Ro

1. Object Relational Mappers Software development has always made use of libraries, off-the-shelf components that are shared between different projects.  These allow you to stand on the shoulders of others and build bigger things.

1. This page or area of the website is very slow, why? There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud.  Website performance starts with the browser, what caching it

Does anyone remember 15 years ago when the dot-com boom was just starting?  A lot of companies were running on Sun.  Sun was the best hardware you could buy for the price.  It was reliable and a lot of engineers had experience wit

MySQL databases are great work horses of the internet.  They back tons of modern websites, from blogs and checkout carts, to huge sites like Facebook.  But these technologies don’t run themselves.  When you’re faced wi

Deploying in the Amazon cloud is touted as a great way to achieve high scalability while paying only for the computing power you use. How do you get the best scalability from the technology?

There are a lot of scalability challenges we see with clients over and over. The list could easily include 20, 50 or even 100 items, but we shortened it down to the biggest five issues we see. 1. Tune those queries By far the bigg

IOPs are an attempt to standardize comparison of disk speeds across different environments.  When you turn on a computer, everything must be read from disk, but thereafter things are kept in memory.  However applications typically

So-called ETL relates to moving data from external sources into and out of relational databases or data warehouses. Extract Source systems may store data in an infinite variety of formats.  Extracting involves getting that data in