Category: All

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Day in brief

  • How come everyone I know complains about the weird weather for the last year,and yet pretty much nobody believes in global warming? Puzzled. #
  • One thing that I want in a Twitter client is URL filter,so that I could only see tweets which do not contain any URLs.All this SEO kills me. #
  • Also if there was any easy way to filter out philosophical quotes from the Twitter stream, that'd be a bonus. #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Мультик про цветы. Жесть и психодел в чистом виде. http://youtu.be/y_fiThmXDbw?a #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — I Love Death http://youtu.be/BoFQV4jXun4?a #
  • Want some bacon, fried eggs, and beer. And maybe a sausage. #
  • I'm lovin' the new Google Images interface. It's so much out of the way, it's unbelievable. I hope Flickr will use something like that too. #

On scalability of MySQL

Anyone who says that MySQL is not scalable has no idea.  Facebook is one of the examples for a large deployment of MySQL:

How big is Facebook’s Internet infrastructure? Facebook VP of Technology Jeff Rothschild provided some details in a panel at the recent MySQL user conference. Rothschild says Facebook is now running 10,000 servers, including 1,800 MySQL servers that are overseen by just two database administrators.

Facebook recently surpassed 500,000,000 users – half a billion!