Essential Firefox Extensions (Plugins, Add-Ons) And Tips – A Comprehensive Guide :: Part 1 :: Tips
Updated: June 10th, 2009
Introduction
In this article I’m going to discuss a number of useful Firefox extensions and tips. This list is not a “COMPLETE GUIDE TO FIREFOX!!!111!” but a collection of some, albeit many, extensions and techniques I find useful, with detailed descriptions and illustrations. I try to make my reviews as personal as possible and express my own points of view, so I will not be using any boring official descriptions…
MySQL Conference Liveblogging: Performance Guide For MySQL Cluster (Tuesday 10:50AM)
- Speaker: Mikael Ronstrom, PhD, the creator of the Cluster engine
- Explains the cluster structure
- Aspects of performance
- Response times
- Throughput
- Low variation of response times
- Improving performance
- use low level API (NDB API), expensive, hard
- use new features in MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3 (currently 6.3.13), more on this later
- proper partitioning of tables, minimize communication
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Updated: January 4th, 2009
Here are some quick links for now: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/05/23/mysql-clusters-improved-release-model/, http://johanandersson.blogspot.com/2008/05/mysql-cluster-62-officially-released.html, http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/improved_release_model_for_mysql.
This article contains my notes and detailed instructions on setting up a MySQL cluster. After reading it, you should have…
MySQL Conference 2008
Updated: March 26th, 2008
April 14-17th is going to be an exciting time. Why? Because the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo is going to be held in Santa Clara, CA. Who would want to miss out on a chance to lurk around, let alone talk to, some of the smartest people in the MySQL world? Well, those who don't have at least $1000+, of course. A 3 day…


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