Comments on: When scaling for speed slows you down… http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mmm Memcached - Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down#comment-2031 Mmm Memcached - Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:07:52 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=113#comment-2031 [...] you read my previous post about our scaling issues, you’ll know that I was planning on trying out a number of other ideas to see if we could [...] [...] you read my previous post about our scaling issues, you’ll know that I was planning on trying out a number of other ideas to see if we could [...]

]]> By: PHP/MySQL Scaling Followup - Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down#comment-2030 PHP/MySQL Scaling Followup - Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:07:36 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=113#comment-2030 [...] posted last week about our work on scaling our crawler application and it’s corresponding MySQL database, but left it with very little conclusion, apart from [...] [...] posted last week about our work on scaling our crawler application and it’s corresponding MySQL database, but left it with very little conclusion, apart from [...]

]]> By: Dan Cryer http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down#comment-71 Dan Cryer Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:47:37 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=113#comment-71 Funnily enough, that's exactly what we've been looking at moving towards, though we'd been investigating beanstalkd (http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/) instead of RabbitMQ. Will certainly check it out though, thanks! Funnily enough, that’s exactly what we’ve been looking at moving towards, though we’d been investigating beanstalkd (http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/) instead of RabbitMQ.

Will certainly check it out though, thanks!

]]> By: Caius http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down#comment-70 Caius Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:44:05 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=113#comment-70 Mysql is a pain to scale, especially when you're using it as a queueing system. Its sometimes worth looking at other queueing systems like RabbitMQ to store the jobs, and your workers just pick the next job off the queue, and store the result in the db. Mysql is a pain to scale, especially when you’re using it as a queueing system. Its sometimes worth looking at other queueing systems like RabbitMQ to store the jobs, and your workers just pick the next job off the queue, and store the result in the db.

]]> By: wadewomersley http://www.dancryer.com/2009/09/when-scaling-for-speed-slows-you-down#comment-67 wadewomersley Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:02:44 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=113#comment-67 So to summarise: you broke it Dan. So to summarise: you broke it Dan.

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