Category: All

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Platforms trump products

Platforms trump products – an excellent view on the trend of vendors to create platforms rather than just products or services.  The world is getting larger and scalability becomes a problem fast – platform, it seems, is a viable solution for now.  Interestingly, lessons learned in the digital world can be applied to the real world.

The Two Words Steve Jobs Hated Most

The Two Words Steve Jobs Hated Most

According to Johnson, the two most “dreaded, hated” words at Apple under Steve Jobs were “branding” and “marketing.”

I’m not the biggest Steve Jobs fan, but I’m with him on these ones. :)

Backup black hole

I just had to look for something that got deleted in one of the systems I administrate.  We have daily backups for the last week, weekly backups for the last two month, monthly backups for the last year, and yearly backups for ever.  That seemed like a sensible backup plan.  Unfortunately, the item that I was looking for was deleted created and deleted a couple of weeks ago.  It probably made it into one of the daily backups, but got rotated out.  And it didn’t live long enough to get into the weekly backup.  And now it’s gone.

(It wasn’t anything critical – but it would be awesome to restore it anyway.)

If it was a file, a backup tool like HashBackup could have made sure I’d never lose it.  But it was an item in the database, of which I have a compressed dump.  I’m guessing it’s probably the time to look for a proper database backup tool…

Any recommendations for MySQL?