A couple interesting things coming out of startup land. For one, Posterous has a little writeup on Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way. Good things to take away include using Sphinx/Solr for search, but the real important takeaway for the MySQL crowd is Storage...

This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

I had the pleasure of addressing a crowd of over 1,000+ people yesterday, at the Sun Tech Days event in Hyderabad. I think this might as well be the biggest number of attendees at a talk that I’ve given. I spoke on MySQL: The Database for Web 2.0, and the notes for this talk are largely indexe...

Based on last night’s episode of Heroes, it’s clear the show’s writers want to turn Sylar into a good guy. This makes sense logistically, as Sylar is now way too powerful to be a villain, and frankly has been from the moment he survived the end of season one. Recall, Sylar has Ted’s nuclear ...