Hello! Messenger is a free, cross-platform mobile chat app which lets iPhone and Blackberry users chat in pairs or groups while avoiding SMS charges. Hello! had a great product already on the market, but were looking to expand their userbase by releasing an Android version of the app with cross-platform functionality. That’s where GT came in…
After our first two posts on MySQL storage engines and general MySQL tips, our senior sysadmin Nathan March closes the week out with some discussion of Percona Server.
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on MySQL storage engines, GT’s lead sysadmin Nathan March gives some MySQL tips, to be followed by some Percona-specific insights tomorrow.
Our senior sysadmin, Nathan March, has been compiling some notes on MySQL and InnoDB for internal use, but we thought they might be of some use and interest to a broader audience. We’ve split Nathan’s insights up into three posts which we’ll be posting daily. First up, Nathan talks about the distinctions between MyISAM and InnoDB, two of MySQL’s storage engines:
I initially started writing this for sysadmins but thought it might be of use to programmers on the whole to help give some insight into MySQL’s storage engine, how they work and why they do certain things. Hopefully this will help demystify things a little on how InnoDB and replication work internally.
June 8th, 2011 is World IPv6 Day.
Today content providers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and of course Gossamer Threads will default their website to run under IPv6 as part of a global test to gauge the readiness of internet providers, webhosts and everyone in between. This is the first major test of IPv6 and we’re excited to play a part!