Search Results for: MySQL

Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site: Interesting details on how they make Facebook scale. Facebook still uses PHP, but it has built a compiler for it so it can be turned into native code on its web servers, thus boosting performance. […] Facebook uses Linux, but has optimized it for its own [...]

I Can’t Wait for NoSQL to Die: A nice rant against the NoSQL movement.  I feel largely the same way.  I concede there absolutely are situations where something other than a relational database is the right model, but they are very, very rare. The idea is that object relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL have [...]

The first rule of coding for Drupal : This is one of the things I’ve learned about Drupal over the last year, and the which I’ve struggled with more than any other.  My first inclination is always to write code.  But you’d be amazed how far you can get with Drupal without writing any code. [...]

Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Mode : An examination of why commercial companies gobble up open-source companies when it’s so hard to make money off open-source software. “There’s only one company making real money out of open source, and that’s Red Hat,” said Simon Crosby, the chief technology officer at Citrix Systems, which [...]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) : Amazon is offering MySQL in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database [...]

Why I switched from PHP to Python : Here’s the best description I’ve heard yet for why PHP is the way it is (emphasis mine). What makes PHP, as a language, awesome is also what makes it horrible to work with, which is that it’s not really a language, but rather a giant plugin architecture [...]

Mint: A Fresh Look at your Site: This is just a quick shoutout for Mint – no, not the financial management app, I mean the Web analytics app. Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. I have a client with an extensive intranet.  So, Google Analytics was out because no one can get [...]

Just asking: why do most programmers dislike PHP?: Interesting debate over at Reddit about why PHP is “disliked” among “most developers” (the veracity of that last sentence is up for debate). Lots of good argument, including this fun rant: PHP been hacked together in a half-assed way by a community of probably smart but unorganized [...]

MySQL Leaders Bail Out of Sun Microsystems: Apparently the mySQL acquisition hasn’t gone well for Sun. Most of the executive team from MySQL has bailed. […] the loss of the core MySQL team bodes ill for Sun, which pushes the open source database as an alternative to similar products from Oracle, Microsoft and others. Much [...]