Monthly Archives: April 2009

Instrument of Failure

Matt | Published: April 26, 2009
The story of an instrument of the financial industry which ultimately played a part in the economic collapse. I was behind the scenes, inside the boxes. My hard work, in its time and place, merited a reward, but it also contributed to what has become a massive, ever-expanding failure. * My Manhattan Project – How I helped [...]
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Database We Can Believe In

Matt | Published: April 26, 2009
Stories from the Front Lines and Server Rooms of Barack Obama’s Online Presidential Campaign MySQLConf 09: Database We Can Believe In Big problems: * 4300 Site hits per second * 13 Million e-mail list subscribers. * 5+ Tb to backup… and only 24 hours in a day. * Running analytics. * Locking, locking and more locking. Big solutions: * Converting tables to InnoDB but [...]
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Print Media Gets a Lifeline

Matt | Published: April 26, 2009
Via Landline.tv
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OSS Interest Increases

Matt | Published: April 10, 2009
The economy continues driving open source trends. ars technica covers the Linux Collaboration Summit: Linux Foundation CEO: Linux is “fastest growing platform” Jim Zemlin executive director of Linux Foundation says that the economic downturn is forcing companies to consolidate their technical infrastructure, and Linux — which works in a broader number of contexts than its competitors and [...]
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