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Optimizing your MySQL Tuning Methodology

 Optimizing your queriesThere are two general methods for creating a query plan for a query. A rule-based optimizer goes through your query, sees if you're doing X or Y, and then optimizes for method A...

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Palomino Evaluates Amazon’s New High I/O SSD Instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new storage layer with SSD as its backend. Because their previous EBS storage has been challenging in the areas of I/O throughput and stability, we were...

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Exploring Configuration Management with Ansible

 What is Ansible?Ansible is a configuration management and deployment system, like Puppet, Capistrano, Fabric, and Chef. Its aim is to be radically simple and let you use your existing scripts to help...

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Benchmarking NDB Against InnoDB on a Write-Intensive Workload

Last month, we evaluated Amazon's new SSD offerings with an extensive series of performance benchmarks.As a followup, we've prepared a second series of benchmarks that specifically explore performance...

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Jetpants Usage and Installation Gotchas

If you regularly manage enormous data sets, you've probably heard about Tumblr's exciting new toolkit called Jetpants, which automates common processes for MySQL data management, most notably in the...

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When Disaster Strikes: Hurricane Sandy

 We devoted the Palomino Newsletter this month to the important topic of disaster recovery, in light of the challenges posed by Hurricane Sandy. If you're not already receiving our newsletter, you can...

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"When the Nerds Go Marching In"

Palomino was honored to serve as part of the team of technologists on President Obama's re-election campaign. Atlantic Magazine ran a fascinating piece about Narwhal, the sophisticated data...

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Benchmarking NDB vs Galera

Inspired by the benchmark in this post, we decided to run some NDB vs Galera benchmarks for ourselves.We confirmed that NDB does not perform well using m1.large instances. In fact, it’s totally...

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Nagios Check Calculated on Mysql Server Variables

Nagios Check For Calculating Based on Mysql Server VariablesRecently we needed to make a change for a client to one of our mysql monitoring tools so I thought it would be a good opportunity to...

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Benchmarking Postgres on AWS 4,000 PIOPs EBS instances

IntroductionDisk I/O is frequently the performance bottleneck with relational databases. With AWS recently releasing 4,000 PIOPs EBS volumes, I wanted to do some benchmarking with pgbench and...

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Critical MySQL 5.6 bug: GRANTs and replication

Critical MySQL 5.6 bug: any user with GRANT privileges can unwillingly cause all replicas to break The latest major release of MySQL brought us a lot of new and exciting features. As always, new...

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Palomino Evaluates Amazon’s New High I/O SSD Instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new storage layer with SSD as its backend. Because their previous EBS storage has been challenging in the areas of I/O throughput and stability, we were...

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Exploring Configuration Management with Ansible

 What is Ansible?Ansible is a configuration management and deployment system, like Puppet, Capistrano, Fabric, and Chef. Its aim is to be radically simple and let you use your existing scripts to help...

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Benchmarking NDB Against InnoDB on a Write-Intensive Workload

Last month, we evaluated Amazon's new SSD offerings with an extensive series of performance benchmarks.As a followup, we've prepared a second series of benchmarks that specifically explore performance...

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Jetpants Usage and Installation Gotchas

If you regularly manage enormous data sets, you've probably heard about Tumblr's exciting new toolkit called Jetpants, which automates common processes for MySQL data management, most notably in the...

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When Disaster Strikes: Hurricane Sandy

 We devoted the Palomino Newsletter this month to the important topic of disaster recovery, in light of the challenges posed by Hurricane Sandy. If you're not already receiving our newsletter, you can...

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"When the Nerds Go Marching In"

Palomino was honored to serve as part of the team of technologists on President Obama's re-election campaign. Atlantic Magazine ran a fascinating piece about Narwhal, the sophisticated data...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Benchmarking NDB vs Galera

Inspired by the benchmark in this post, we decided to run some NDB vs Galera benchmarks for ourselves.We confirmed that NDB does not perform well using m1.large instances. In fact, it’s totally...

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Nagios Check Calculated on Mysql Server Variables

Nagios Check For Calculating Based on Mysql Server VariablesRecently we needed to make a change for a client to one of our mysql monitoring tools so I thought it would be a good opportunity to...

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Benchmarking Postgres on AWS 4,000 PIOPs EBS instances

IntroductionDisk I/O is frequently the performance bottleneck with relational databases. With AWS recently releasing 4,000 PIOPs EBS volumes, I wanted to do some benchmarking with pgbench and...

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