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Memcached Study

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:04:32 GMT

Memcached http://download.tangent.org/talks/Memcached%20Study.pdf *memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. *Who? • Facebook • Yahoo • Amazon • LiveJournal • Mixi • ... *Why? (aka why would I...)‫‏‬ **LiveJournal • Origin of memcached • 30G of cache. Terabytes of data • Writes to DB based on reads from the DB, not cache *Mixi • Memcached on dedicated servers • 100 servers in production (reuse old MySQL Servers) • 4 gigs of Memory • 15,000 qps /

Full Circle Magazine: Issue 16

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:19:41 GMT

Issue #16 - August 2008 THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU COMMUNITY full circle MM? DPI? JAMIE STRANDBOGE CREATE A PERFECT INSTALL AND BURN IT TO CD. CREATE YOUR UBUNTU SIZE IS EVERYTHING IN: USING GIMP PART 5 GIMP PART 5 GNOME-LOOK GUIDE CREATE YOUR OWN UBUNTU CREATE YOUR OWN SERVER 8 CREATE AND MOVE FILES Full Circle magazine is not affiliated with or endorsed by Canonical Ltd. 1 *p.04 Creating And Moving Files p.06 p.08 p.12 p.15 p.18 p.24 p.26 p.27 p.29 p.30 full circle www.fullcirclemagazine.org P.08 P.12 P.06 Create Your Own Ubuntu Server Series - Part 8 GIMP - Part 5 G

Make Data Useful by Greg Linden, Amazon.com

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:01:14 GMT

Make Data Useful Greg Linden *“[Help] people find and discover anything they want to buy online” - Jeff Bezos *Help people find and discover anything online *“Encourage experimentation ... as much of it as possible” - Jeff Bezos *What is the goal? Revenue Traffic Clicks Visitors Retention Time on site Customer acquisition *Measure Learn Optimize Iterate *“Worry about the data first before you worry about the algorithm” - Peter Norvig *[Banko and Brill, 2001] *On the design of recommendation features *Design to encourage forgiveness of mistakes *Help when help is wanted *“Discovery

Incremental Dynamic Code Generation with Trace Trees

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:15:57 GMT

Incremental Dynamic Code Generation with Trace Trees Andreas Gal University of California, Irvine gal@uci.edu Michael Franz University of California, Irvine franz@uci.edu Abstract The unit of compilation for traditional just-in-time compilers is the method. We have explored trace-based compilation, in which the unit of compilation is a loop, potentially spanning multiple methods and even library code. Using a new intermediate representation that is discovered and updated lazily on-demand while the program is being executed, our compiler generates code that is competitive with traditional dyn

LiveJournal: Behind The Scenes

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:16:04 GMT

LiveJournal: Behind The Scenes Scaling Storytime June 2007 USENIX Brad Fitzpatrick brad@danga.com danga.com / livejournal.com / sixapart.com This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. http://danga.com/words/ 1 *The plan...  Refer to previous presentations for more details...    Questions anytime! Yell. Interrupt. Part 0: − http://danga.com/words/  Pa

Hypertable An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:56:56 GMT

Hypertable Doug Judd Zvents, Inc. *Background hypertable.org *Web 2.0 = Data Explosion Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 1.0 *Traditional Tools Don’t Scale Well  Designed for a single machine  Typical scaling solutions  ad-hoc  manual/static resource allocation *The Google Stack  Google File System (GFS)  Map-reduce  Bigtable hypertable.org *Architectural Overview hypertable.org *What is Hypertable?  A open source high performance, scalable database, modelled after Google's Bigtable  Not relational  Does not support transactions hypertable.org *Hypertable Improvements Over Tr

MySQL Magazine: Summer 2008 (Issue #5)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:29:18 GMT

Summer 2008 Issue 5 S MySQL® Magazine News, articles and feedback for MySQL database administrators and developers using MySQL on a daily basis to provide some of the best database infrastructure available. INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2 SQLYog Enterprise Edition Version 6.55 Review 6 REGULAR FEATURES Coding Corner 10 Ma'atkit Toolkit Tutorial: mk-table-checksum 13 Command Line mysql Client Options 21 MySQL Magazine’s 2008 Annual Usage Survey 22 news 42 log-bin *Page 2 Summer 2008 MySQL Magazine SQLYog Enterprise Edition Version 6.55 Review By Jonathan Cua This software is one of the most popula

Drupal Performance and Scalability

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:30:46 GMT

Drupal Performance and Scalability http://books.tag1consulting.com/book/export/html/1 Drupal Performance and Scalability Obtaining Optimal Performance From Drupal And The LAMP Stack. This book is written by Jeremy Andrews and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Section 1: Drupal Performance The first section of this book offers details on how to get good performance out of your Drupal powered website, and how to scale it as demand grows. The majority of the features discussed in this section are available without making any m

Twiter Bulks Up on Best Practces to Increase Inbox Placement Rates by 100%

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:14:56 GMT

ClientStudy Story Case Success Twitter Bulks Up on Best Practices to Increase Inbox Placement Rates by 100% Sender Score Improves by 40 Points, Assuring Long-Term Deliverability Success Twitter is a communication network which enables people to stay connected in real-time through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Answers must be 140 characters or less and the service is unique because it works over several existing networks including SMS, Instant Message, the Web, and hundreds of other applications built on an open API. GET MORE INFO rpinfo@r

Percona: How to Outrun The Lions

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:52:18 GMT

Outrun The Lions Baron Schwartz Percona Inc (via OfferPal Media) FaceApps Developer Conference Las Vegas, NV July 12, 2008 *-2- Who Am I? • Lead author of High Performance MySQL 2nd edition • Author of Maatkit and innotop • Consulting team lead at Percona – We are full-stack performance experts • Background in e-commerce, retail, search engine advertising and marketing • Degree in Computer Science from University of Virginia *-3- Somewhere in the Serengeti... *-4- I can see the future I see your load increasing. Most of you will follow similar patterns. *-5- A sample of common proble

Кинематика. Задачник.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:37:57 GMT

Кинематика. Е.М. Балдин, О.Я. Савченко Новосибирск, 2005 *ii *Оглавление Предисловие 1 Кинематика 1.1 Движение с постоянной скоростью . . . . . . . . . . Задачи к § 1.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Прямолинейное движение с постоянным ускорением Задачи к § 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Баллистика . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Задачи к § 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Движение с переменным ускорением . . . . . . . . . Задачи к § 1.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Кинематика

История о PostgreSQL

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:30:43 GMT

История о PostgreSQL Е.М. Балдин∗ Этот текст основан на цикле статей, опубликованных с 85го (ноябрь 2006) по 91ый (апрель 2007) номер русскоязычного журнала Linux Format. Текст распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA-3.0). Если будет необходимость перелицензировать всё под другой свободной лицензией, то свяжитесь со мной по электронной почте. Замечания и предложения принимаются с благодарностью. e-mail: E.M.Baldin@inp.nsk.su Слон взят с сайта http://pgfoundry.org/projects/graphics/. Изображение предоставляется под лицензией BSD. ∗ *Оглав

Статистическая обработка данных в R

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:29:36 GMT

Статистическая обработка данных в R © А.Б. Шипунов∗ Е.М. Балдин† , 3 мая 2008 г. 1 Приёмы элементарного анализа данных Зарплаты сотрудников виртуальной компании: > salary <- c(21, 19, 27, 11, 102, 25, 21) [1] 21 19 27 11 102 25 21 > names(salary) <- c("Коля", "Женя", "Петя", "Саша", "Катя", "Вася", + "Жора") [1] "Коля" "Женя" "Петя" "Саша" "Катя" "Вася" "Жора" > salary Коля Женя Петя Саша Катя Вася Жора 21 19 27 11 102 25 21 Посмотрим чему равен центр: > mean(salary) [1] 32.28571 > median(salary) [1] 21 Получение среднего на примере встроенных данных trees: > attach(trees) ∗ † e-mail: dacty

Типы данных в R и принципы работы с ними

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:29:22 GMT

Типы данных в R и принципы работы с ними © А.Б. Шипунов∗ Е.М. Балдин† , 3 мая 2008 г. 1 Числовые векторы Простейший вектор (рост сотрудников): > x <- c(174, 162, 188, 192, 165, 168, 172) [1] 174 162 188 192 165 168 172 Структура вектора: > str(x) num [1:7] 174 162 188 192 165 168 172 NULL Проверка: А вектор ли это? : > is.vector(x) [1] TRUE 2 Факторы Текстовый (character) вектор (пол сотрудников): > sex <- c("male", "female", "male", "male", "female", "male", + "male") [1] "male" ∗ † "female" "male" "male" "female" "male" "male" e-mail: dactylorhiza@gmail.com e-mail: E.M.Baldin@inp.nsk.

R: Данные и графики

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:28:47 GMT

Глава 2 Данные и графики Анализ хороших данных это просто. А вот чтобы сделать Ваши данные хорошими , а затем и представить их придётся попотеть. 2.1. R и работа с данными Подготовка данных к работе это одна из самых больших проблем для новичка в R. Сама по себе обработка данных подробно описана в разных руководствах и пособиях, а вот информация как добиться того, чтобы R прочитал приготовленные в другой программе данные, как правило, опускается. Почему это так очевидно: входные данные могут иметь слишком разный формат, чтобы написать по этому вопросу исчерпывающее и компактное руководство.

Введение в R

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:28:28 GMT

Глава 1 Введение в R Вы ещё анализируете данные по старинке методом внимательного вглядывания в набор точек на графике, изредка подгоняя их к прямой с помощью многочисленных мышекликов ? Пусть это делает за Вас компьютер, и R это именно тот язык, который позволит разъяснить ему Вашу проблему. 1.1. Что такое R Прежде всего R язык программирования для статистической обработки данных и работы с графикой, но в тоже время это свободная программная среда с открытым исходным кодом, развиваемая в рамках проекта GNU. В любом дистрибутиве GNU/Linux, если его целью не является размещения всего дистриб

Machine Architecture: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:48:07 GMT

Machine Architecture: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You Herb Sutter Software Development Consultant www.gotw.ca/training Machine Architecture (Things Your Programming Language Never Told You) Herb Sutter Machine Architecture High-level languages insulate the programmer from the machine. That’s a wonderful thing -- except when it obscures the answers to the fundamental questions of “What does the program do?” and “How much does it cost?” The C++ and C# programmer is less insulated than most, and still we find that programmers are consistently surprised at what simple code actua

The Book of Ruby

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:22:55 GMT

THE BOOK OF RUBY HUW COLLINGBOURNE *THE BOOK OF RUBY Copyright © 2008 Huw Collingbourne The right of Huw Collingbourne to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on t

An Experimental Comparison of Click-Position Bias Models

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:14:19 GMT

An Experimental Comparison of Click Position-Bias Models Nick Craswell, Onno Zoeter and Michael Taylor Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK Bill Ramsey Microsoft Research, Redmond USA brams@microsoft.com {nickcr,onnoz,mitaylor}@microsoft.com ABSTRACT Search engine click logs provide an invaluable source of relevance information, but this information is biased. A key source of bias is presentation order: the probability of click is inﬂuenced by a document’s position in the results page. This paper focuses on explaining that bias, modelling how probability of click depends on position. We propose

Scaling Web Sites by Sharding and Replication

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:27:24 GMT

Scaling MySQL-powered Web Sites by Sharding and Replication June 24, 2008 Velocity Conference Burlingame,CA by Peter Zaitsev, Percona Inc *-2- Web Application Challenges • Page Generation Layer – Scale by adding more servers – Most applications do not have interdependences • Storage Layer (Static Content) – Images, Videos etc – No dependencies - scaling by more hard drives/boxes – CDN can often take the load • “Database” – Often Hardest to scale due to complex interdependencies *Classes of Web Applications • New feature for existing service – Product recommendation on Amazon.Com – “Instan

Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:34:40 GMT

Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph Yushi Jing Shumeet Baluja Rohan Seth D. Sivakumar Jay Yagnik Shankar Kumar Deepak Ravichandran Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA Mohamed Aly ∗ {shumeet, rohan, siva, jing, jyagnik, shankarkumar, deepakr}@google.com, midohussein@gmail.com ABSTRACT The rapid growth of the number of videos in YouTube provides enormous potential for users to ﬁnd content of interest to them. Unfortunately, given the diﬃculty of searching videos, the size of the video repository also makes the discovery of new content a daunti

Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2006)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:20:51 GMT

SIGIR WORKSHOP REPORT Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2006) Brian D. Davison Lehigh University, USA davison@cse.lehigh.edu Marc Najork Microsoft Research, USA najork@microsoft.com Tim Converse Yahoo! Search, USA tconvers@yahoo-inc.com 1 Introduction The attraction of hundreds of millions of web searches per day provides signiﬁcant incentive for many content providers to do whatever is necessary to rank highly in search engine results, while search engine providers want to provide the most accurate results. The conﬂicting goals of search and content providers are adversa

Improving Spam Filtering by Detecting Gray Mail

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:39:34 GMT

Improving Spam Filtering by Detecting Gray Mail Wen-tau Yih Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA, USA Robert McCann Microsoft One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA, USA Aleksander Kołcz Microsoft Live Labs One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA, USA scottyih@microsoft.com robmccan@microsoft.com ark@microsoft.com ABSTRACT We address the problem of gray mail – messages that could reasonably be considered either spam or good. Email users often disagree on this mail, presenting serious challenges to spam ﬁlters in both model training and evaluation. In this paper, we propose four simple methods f

Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:24:07 GMT

Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files Parag Agrawal Stanford University Daniel Kifer Yahoo! Research Christopher Olston Yahoo! Research ABSTRACT We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of processing these files, by sharing scans of the same file as aggressively as possible, without imposing undue wait time on individual jobs. This scheduling problem arises in batch data processing environments such as Map-Reduce systems, some of which handle tens of thousa

OOP In Java

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:32:45 GMT

OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN JAVA TM Richard L. Halterman 13 March 2008 Draft *© 2008 Richard L. Halterman. CC Some rights reserved. All the content of this document (including text, ﬁgures, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs This document is free for non-commericial use with attribution and no derivatives. You are free to copy, distribute, and display this text under the following conditions: • • • BY: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner speciﬁed by the author or l

Java Web Stack Calls Diagram

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:55:07 GMT

Tomcat / JBoss Acegi Spring MVC Spring WebFlow MVC Action AOP TX Proxy Business Logic DAO Spring-Hibernate Hibernate JDBC *

Kilim: Isolation-Typed Actors for Java

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:57:18 GMT

Kilim: Isolation-Typed Actors for Java (A Million Actors, Safe Zero-Copy Communication) Sriram Srinivasan and Alan Mycroft University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK {Sriram.Srinivasan,Alan.Mycroft}@cl.cam.ac.uk Abstract. This paper describes Kilim, a framework that employs a combination of techniques to help create robust, massively concurrent systems in mainstream languages such as Java: (i) ultra-lightweight, cooperatively-scheduled threads (actors), (ii) a message-passing framework (no shared memory, no locks) and (iii) isolation-aware messaging. Isolation is achiev

Scribd Group Photo

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:57:05 GMT

Join-fu: The Art of SQL - Part II

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:56:40 GMT

Join-fu: The Art of SQL Part II – Intermediate Join-Fu Jay Pipes Community Relations Manager MySQL jay@mysql.com http://jpipes.com These slides released under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercialShare Alike 3.0 License *intermediate join-fu Practical examples, but meant to show techniques of SQL problem solving ● Handling hierarchical queries – – Adjacency lists Nested sets Distance between two points Points within a given radius Running sums and aggregates Ranking return results ● Exploring GIS calculations in SQL – – ● Reporting query techniques – – *a word about fear...

Join-fu: The Art of SQL - Part I

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:56:35 GMT

Join-fu: The Art of SQL Part I – Basic Join-Fu Jay Pipes Community Relations Manager MySQL jay@mysql.com http://jpipes.com These slides released under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercialShare Alike 3.0 License *before we start ● Who am I? – Just some dude who works at MySQL (eh...Sun) Oh, I co-wrote a book on MySQL Active PHP/MySQL community member Other than that, semi-normal geek, married, 2 dogs, 2 cats, blah blah – – – ● This talk is about how to code your app to get the best performance out of your (My)SQL *system architecture of MySQL Clients Query Cache Query Cach

Cluster synchronization with Csync

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:53:40 GMT

Cluster synchronization with Csync2 Clifford Wolf, http://www.clifford.at/ May 28, 2006 1 Introduction Csync2 [1] is a tool for asynchronous file synchronization in clusters. Asynchronous file synchronization is good for files which are seldom modified such as configuration files or application images but it is not adequate for some other types of data. For instance a database with continuous write accesses should be synced synchronously in order to ensure the data integrity. But that does not automatically mean that synchronous synchronization is better; it simply is different and there are many ca

IYOCGwP book1

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:13:29 GMT

***Copyright 2008 © by Albert Sweigart "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. You are free: to Share - to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to Remix - to make derivative works Under the following conditions: Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). (Visibly include the title and author's name in any excerpts of this work.) Noncommercial - You

Panther Web Services APIs Service Note

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:48:38 GMT

Service Note: Web Services APIs Introduction To help customers incorporate Panther’s service into their workflow, Panther provides SOAP-based web services APIs to flush PAD objects from the Panther cache, and to query bandwidth usage statistics for customer PADs. Cache Flush (Individual PAD Object) You can use Panther web services APIs to “hard flush” an individual PAD object from the Panther cache. Objects are removed from Panther cache index within approximately 5 minutes. New user requests for a flushed object causes Panther cache nodes to re-fetch object from origin. The effect on the cust

High Performance MySQL: Chapter 4

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:44:46 GMT

,ch04.10735 Page 152 Friday, June 6, 2008 1:10 PM Chapter 4 4 CHAPTER Query Performance Optimization 4 In the previous chapter, we explained how to optimize a schema, which is one of the necessary conditions for high performance. But working with the schema isn’t enough—you also need to design your queries well. If your queries are bad, even the best-designed schema will not perform well. Query optimization, index optimization, and schema optimization go hand in hand. As you gain experience writing queries in MySQL, you will come to understand how to design schemas to support efficient que

jesi tutorial

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:54:49 GMT

JESI QuickStart JESI Caching Quick Start By MC Draft Version: 1.4 Check www.jahia.org for regular updates Page 1 of 37 © Jahia Ltd, all rights reserved. *JESI QuickStart Changelog • • • • • 29/11/2005: document created. 23/06/2006: added doc for absolute and alwaysInvalidate attributes. 12/07/2006: explained fragment number constraint. 20/10/2006: added custom class section, aclGroup templates, manual invalidations, key generation overview, platform-specific AOP configuration and other minor additions. 06/12/2006 : Portlet caching section added. Page 2 of 37 © Jahia Ltd, all rights re

phpconf2008: Sphinx Search Engine

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:22:19 GMT

The riddles of the Sphinx Full-text engine anatomy atlas *Who are you? • Sphinx – FOSS full-text search engine *Who are you? • Sphinx – FOSS full-text search engine • Good at playing ball *Who are you? • Sphinx – FOSS full-text search engine • Good at playing ball • Good at not playing ball *Who are you? • Sphinx – FOSS full-text search engine • Good at playing ball • Good at not playing ball • Good at passing the ball to a team-mate *Who are you? • Sphinx – FOSS full-text search engine • Good at playing ball • Good at not playing ball • Good at passing the ball to a team-mate • Good at m

Fast Sexy and Svelte Rails Testing

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:26:36 GMT

Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of Rails Testing Dan Manges (ThoughtWorks) zak (unemployed) *a translation without buzzwords *notes short build times maintainable comprehensive coverage this talk: how to achieve these three things *what this talk is not about *notes selling you on tests if you haven’t bought into the value of testing, prepare to be very bored… *the testing spectrum unit functional integration denial acceptance *what’s a unit test? *notes   fine grained   focused on one object   provides the most accurate feedback   fails fastest   only one object / method under t

Assembling Pages Last: Edge Caching, ESI and Rails

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:54 GMT

Assembling Pages Last Edge Caching, ESI, and Rails Aaron Batalion 5/31/2008 1 *2 *About Me www.livingsocial.com blog.livingsocial.com 3 *About Me www.revolution.com #2 http://rails100.pbwiki.com/ 4 *Agenda - Examine a Rails Application - Apply Standard Caching Techniques - When thats not enough, then what? - Edge Caching - FragmentFu - Deployment Options - Pros/Cons of Edge Caching 5 *Agenda - Examine a Rails Application - Apply Standard Caching Techniques - When thats not enough, then what? - Edge Caching - FragmentFu - Deployment Options - Pros/Cons of Edge Caching 6 *7 *8 *9

Advanced Searching in Rails

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:13:34 GMT

CRUD Is Not Spelled With An “S” Advanced Searching in Rails Steve Midgley http://www.misuse.org/science http://www.hutz.com May 30th 2008 *Why? *Who Should Be Here? • Free text search isn’t enough. • Want multi-column parameterized searching. – Buying/finding things with specific attributes • Date-driven • Price-driven • Categorized • Building advanced searching is HARD. *Here *The Four Things You Have to Deal With • POST/GET Params representing Search Criteria • Merging Search Criteria with Persistent Criteria – Session/backend, hidden input tags or on the URL line • Converting Search Cri

A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:03:16 GMT

A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra (Version 2.5) Victor Shoup **Version History 2.5: May 16, 2008. Second final release candidate. Fixed a couple of typos and bad line breaks. 2.4: May 8, 2008. This is a final release candidate for the second print edition. External reviews processed. A few new exercises and very minor reorganization. More typos fixed. Bad line and page breaks fixed. Typographical improvements. 2.3: April 7, 2008. More typos fixed, some improvements to exposition, some notational changes, and a different Times Roman font (tmaths). 2.2: Mar. 6, 2008. More typ

Айзек Азимов. На пути к основанию.

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:02 GMT

Айзек Азимов На пути к Основанию [На пути к Академии] Академия [Основание] – 2 Дополнительная вычитка – Виктор Грязнов Оригинал: Isaac Asimov, “Forward the Foundation” Аннотация Крах великой Империи, объединившей двадцать пять миллионов обитаемых миров, неизбежен. К такому выводу пришел математик Гэри Сэлдон, создатель науки будущего – психоистории. Чтобы построить новую цивилизацию на обломках старой, Сэлдон и его единомышленники готовят создание двух Академий, одна из которых будет заниматься сохранением знаний, накопленных человечеством, а вторая, тайная, будет незримо направлять процесс в

MySQL Stored Procedures

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:27:44 GMT

MySQL Stored Procedures By Peter Gulutzan Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 by MySQL AB. All rights reserved. Book 1 in the “MySQL 5.0 New Features” Series Second Edition – Revised for MySQL 5.1 *Contents Technical Matters Introduction A definition and an example Why stored procedures? Setup with MySQL 5.0 CREATE PROCEDURE example What statements are legal in a procedure body Call the procedure Characteristics clauses Digressions Exercise Parameters Compound statements Variables Conditions and IFTHENELSE CASE Loops Error Handling Cursors Security Dynamic PREPARE and EXECUTE Func

MySQL Query Cache

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:44:39 GMT

The MySQL Query Cache Baron Schwartz Percona Inc *The Roadmap • How it works • What it isn't • Myths • How it uses memory • Monitoring and status • Configuration • Trivia (how it works with InnoDB) 2 *What is the Query Cache? • Caches the result of a SELECT statement – The raw bytes • When there's a hit, just resends the result • Does not cache execution plans *How it Works • It's a big hash table • The hash key is the query text, current database, relevant character sets, etc etc. – It's casesensitive, whitespacesensitive Check SQL Query Cache Store Parse, Optimize, Execute Result

MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:26:21 GMT

MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat M apReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large datasets that is amenable to a broad variety of real-world tasks. Users specify the computation in terms of a map and a reduce function, and the underlying runtime system automatically parallelizes the computation across large-scale clusters of machines, handles machine failures, and schedules inter-machine communication to make efficient use of the network and disks. Programmers find the system easy

Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:04:39 GMT

Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions Jeff Dean Google Fellow http://labs.google.com/people/jeff *Outline • Hardware infrastructure • Distributed systems infrastructure: – Scheduling system – GFS – BigTable – MapReduce • Challenges and Future Directions – Infrastructure that spans all datacenters – More automation *Sample Problem Domains • Offline batch jobs – Large datasets (PBs), bulk reads/writes (MB chunks) – Short outages acceptable – Web indexing, log processing, satellite imagery, etc. • Online applications – Smaller datasets (TBs), small reads/writ

Performing MySQL Backups using LVM Snapshots

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:28:00 GMT

Performing MySQL Backups using LVM Snapshots Presented by, MySQL AB® & O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2008-04-16 MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 Santa Clara, CA, USA Lenz Grimmer MySQL Community Relations Manager Database Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. *Session content  Introduction to LVM Features, Benefits, Terminology, Tools  LVM Snapshots Overview, Features, Use case  Backing up MySQL using Snapshots Benefits, Procedure, Caveats  mylvmbackup  Practical hints & recommendations  Related tools & technologies *Introduction to LVM  Storage Virtualisation / Abstraction for Linu

MySQL EXPLAIN Cheatsheet

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:15:44 GMT

Syntax: EXPLAIN