MySQL is a rock solid, lighting fast database server which has been designed for two factors speed and performance. It is the Ferrari of databases: Light weight, fast and Built for the high speed tracks! I still hear an awful lot of stories from owners whose databases are running two slow. In my experience, the [...] [...more]
At the May 2009 Boston mysql User Group, Giuseppe Maxia of Sun Microsystems gave a presentation about mysql 5.4 with use cases and benchmarks to show how it outperforms all other current mysql releases (including the Percona, ourdelta, and Google releases/patches). The slides are at www.slideshare.net [...more]
High Performance Ruby on Rails and mysql David Berube (Berube Consulting) From the official conference description is at www.mysqlconf.com mysql is among the fastest relational databases commonly available today; unfortunately, the database alone is only part of the picture. For todays web applications, the one weak link in the entire performance chain from the network [...] [...more]
Getting Loopy: Performance Loopers For Linux Musicians Linux Journal: “Each of the loopers profiled here includes the basic set of features noted above and each adds some unique appeal of its own. They are all licensed under the GPL and are completely free and open-source software.” Read more on Linux Today [...more]
