December 2008
DTrace vs. SystemTap →
By popular demand, here is a summary comparing systemtap and dtrace.
Monty says: Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1... →
In this blog Monty will try to describe his opinions about this release and also try to set the expectations right for anyone trying out MySQL 5.1 GA.
A Conversation with the Authors of JRuby Cookbook... →
Henry Liu and Justin Edelson wrote the just released JRuby Cookbook which is available from O’Reilly in both Print and Electronic formats. I spoke with both Henry and Justin about the book, JRuby, and the current state of the Java platform.
What's new with Apache Solr →
Apache Solr has added many new features and performance improvements since the Search smarter with Apache Solr series was published. In this article, Solr and Lucene committer Grant Ingersoll details the improvements in Solr 1.3, including distributed search, easy database imports, integrated spell checking, new extension APIs, and much more.
November 2008
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu
ZFS Replication for MySQL data | MCslp Coalface →
What I have been trying to explain all along.