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Something is afoot in the above graph, what I can tell you is at around 10:15pm is when I disabled transparent hugepages on this box. So where why am I suddenly buffering and caching more? What are transparent hugepages? From what I understand hugepages were introduced to maximize the use of the TLB (translation lookaside [...]
I was making my way through the sites in my daily reading rotation tonight when I saw a fairly suspicious article posted on the High Scalability blog talking about 5 things poisonous to scalability. I dont know how this managed to make it through their normally decent moderation because it read more like cheap marketing [...]
Cloud Foundry was recently unveiled by VMWare at JAX in London and given the recent failings of other cloud hosting providers I think timing couldn’t have been better. What do you do when you’ve built your entire infrastructure on one vendors ‘cloud’? You’ve tied in all of their API’s into your application to make the [...]
A bit of a plug for A10 Networks here since we’re still very pleased after having them in production for a little over a two months. Not only is their thermal tolerance top notch (as tested from last weekends data center meltdown) the feature set is pretty damn impressive for the price point too. One of the features we [...]
As a company who owns a lot of forums and sees major growth in the amount of content produced each day it becomes harder for our users to accurately find some of the content they’re looking for, which in turn makes it less likely a random new user will stick around. Forums tend to have [...]
While on the topic of MySQL, sometimes when your budget is small and you can’t afford nice master/slave or multi-master setups or simply you want easy off-site backups for your databases you need to improvise a bit! We used to have a handful of dedicated database servers and each site would become unresponsive for the [...]
