Larry Summers, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council coined the phrase “preserving optionality” back when he was deputy secretary of the treasury under Robert Rubin in the Clinton administration. It was meant to describe a strategy of keeping options open and fluid, fighting the urge to make choices too soon, before all of…
With the increasing data and user demand, ensuring the scalability of your MySQL database has become crucial to maintain optimal performance. With this, you can handle growing amounts of data, traffic, and user requests with your database in MySQL. But how to boost MySQL scalability? This is the most trending question among MySQL users and…
Amazon’s Relational Database Service is based on MySQL under the hood. So many colleagues and clients ask me – should I go with RDS or MySQL? As with every technology question, the answer is – it depends. In this article, we are going to discuss 10 use cases of RDS or MySQL. Let’s get started below….
In the Internet world, 24×7 has become the de facto standard. Websites must be always on, and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In our pursuit of perfection, performance is being measured down to three decimal places, that is being up 99.999% of the time; in short, five-nines. Just like a mantra, when…
I’ve been getting more than my fair share of calls from recruiters of late. Even in this depressed economic climate where jobs are rarer than a cab at rush hour, it’s heartening to know that tech engineers are in great demand. And it’s even more heartening to think that the demand for MySQL DBAs has…
There’s a lot of talk on the web about scalability. Making web applications scale is not easy. The modern web architecture has so many moving parts. How can we grapple with the underlying problem? The LAMP Stack Scales Well The truth is half right. True there are a lot of moving parts and a lot…
In the dynamic realm of software development and operations, where collaboration and alignment are paramount, there exists a four-letter word that has the potential to evoke both trepidation and tension. Risk, often viewed as a double-edged sword, is a fundamental concept that drives decision-making, shapes strategies, and delineates the boundaries between development (Dev) and operations…
In a recent buzzfeed piece, NYPD goes to the mat with Palantir over their data. It seems the NYPD has recently gotten cold feet. As they explored options, they found an alternative that might save them a boatload of money. They considered switching to an IBM alternative called Cobalt. And I mean this is Silicon Valley, what…
Six months ago, I got this crazy idea. Why not leave the mothership? Give up on iPhone and try Android. This is what being tech-agnostic is about, I thought––not being wedded to a single platform. Besides, the iPhone’s digital keypad just wasn’t working for me. I got a monthly Boost Mobile plan, which uses Sprint. Service was…
Continuing from our Top MySQL DBA interview here are five more questions that test a MySQL DBA’s knowledge, with two that will help suss out some personality traits. 6. Disk I/O Disk performance should be an ever-present concern to a DBA. So, although they don’t need to be a storage specialist, they should have a working knowledge….