Underground PHP/Oracle Manual
In the spirit of a long line of O’Reilly “missing manuals”, and hacker opuses, take a look at Chris Jones opus: The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual. It’s a short week, so we’ll catch up with you all...
View ArticleAnother Take on Unbreakable Linux Support
A lot of folks are sounding the alarm bells over Unbreakable Linux. Given that this direction at Oracle speaks squarely to my topic here at Oracle + Open Source, I thought I should at least comment....
View ArticleUnbreakable Linux Network – Insider’s View
Wim Coekaerts is the VP of Linux Engineering at Oracle. He was basically the guy who put Linux on Oracle’s radar back in the day. I remember his OCFS project, oss.oracle.com and the Oracle RAC on...
View Article2007: Best OTN Articles
Justin Kestelyn has posted an excellent article on his blog listing the Most Popular Technical Articles of 2007. Among the top ten articles an amazing SIX discuss open-source technologies such as...
View ArticleSun Shines on MySQL
As many of you may have already heard, Sun officially announced their purchase of MySQL today. After the last few years with Oracle pushing Linux and commodity hardware, Sun has certainly taken the...
View Articlereview: Backup & Recovery by W. Curtis Preston
Just finished up O’Reilly’s Backup & Recovery by W. Curtis Preston. The title is wide-reaching, covering backups at the operating system as well as on all the popular database platforms, including...
View Articlereview: High Performance MySQL 2nd Ed.
I just finished reading the recently released 2nd Edition of High Performance MySQL by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Arjen Lentz & Derek Balling. I’ve posted a...
View ArticleOpen Insights 51 – Stretch Your Database Dollar
Over the holidays I had the chance to catch up on some podcasts I hadn’t listened to. In particular Financial Times has an excellent weekly one called “Digital Business”. In the last one for 2008,...
View ArticleOpen Insights 58 – Ownership
In our latest newsletter we take a trip to the Brooklyn Flea, and talk with the purveyors not of homemade beer, but homemade beer making equipment. We share some insights at how enthusiasts,...
View ArticleOpen Insights 61 – Medicine of Austerity
In our latest newsletter we discuss what economists are dubbing the “medicine of austerity” aka paying the piper or tightening your belt. And we think that this medicine will surely include open...
View ArticleDBJ: More MySQL Scaling
In this second part of our piece on scaling, we talk about running more instances of MySQL either on a single server or multiple servers, to get faster overall response for your queries. This will...
View ArticleDBJ: DRBD & Virtualbox Setup
In part two of our article on DRBD and High Availability, we take you step-by-step through setting up Sun’s Virtualbox software, creating a couple of VMs, and then installing CentOS on those. These...
View ArticleiHeavy Insights 65 – How Many Hats
What’s your strongest suit? You may have heard the question before. It’s a simple and seemingly innocuous question, however by labeling and simplifying our skillset, we subtly pigeonhole our...
View ArticleDBJ: More Maatkit
In this month’s article we discuss Maatkit again, following up on our previous article last month. There are a whole host of backup and administrative tools including some to dump in parallel, search...
View ArticleDBJ: Maatkit & Tcpdumps for Query Analysis
MySQL has a great facility called the slow query log. It allows you to filter out the most expensive requests against your database. You may not have enabled it, however, and perhaps don’t want to...
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Is Amazon too big to fail?
Amazon is the huge online retailer everyone knows well. However there is another side of Amazon, namely Amazon Web Services that hosts many of the internets largest websites. Join 28,000 others and...
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Why I use Airbnb chat even when texting is easier
If you’ve ever traveled & stayed with an Airbnb host, you know that once you book you can easily switch to text messaging. Sometimes this is easier. But as I found out, it’s smarter to stick with a...
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Always be publishing
Join 28,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. As an advisor to New York area startups & an long time entrepreneur, I’ve found writing & publishing to be extremely valuable use...
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Are open source projects run like a democracy or an oligarchy?
I was reading Fred Wilson’s comments recently on The Bitcoin XT Fork. In it he discussed how open source developers manage their projects. “A group of open source core developers are a democratic...
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What Deborah Tannen taught me about conversation & interruption
I was recently invited to attend a charity event in Washington DC. Dinner was a catered affair of 300 with a few senators & Muhammad Yunus there to talk about micro financing. After dinner we broke...
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