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 build the bomb that blew up Wall Street
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 still using MyISAM when necessary.
* Using inverse SQL queries to reduce query time.
* Processing “pipelines” to more easily digest and represent data.
More videos from MySQL Conference & Expo.
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 can be adopted at potentially lower costs — is gaining ground as a consequence of this trend.
CNET also reports open source software interest increases as budgets are constrained.