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Join 27,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Your site is running fine right? You have 1000 customers, and it usually runs smoothly. Just this one lingering question, why does it take five high performance EC2 instances to run the database, all on flash drives? Goood question! The truth is one of the …
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If you’ve used relational databases for more than ten minutes, I hope you’ve heard of slow queries. Those are those pesky little gremlins that are slowing down your startup, and preventing scalability you so desperately need. Luckily there’s a solution. What I’ve found is if I send a report to developers every week, it keeps …
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