» Palomino http://palominodb.com/blog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Where we’ve been… http://palominodb.com/blog/2009/11/08/where-weve-been/ http://palominodb.com/blog/2009/11/08/where-weve-been/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:35:29 +0000 Administrator http://palominodb.com/blog/?p=25 You might notice that I haven’t blogged in oh, 2 years.  How remiss of me.  The only defense I have is that we’ve been non-stop busy!  Since then we’ve built our client portfolio, brought in two new team members, presented at MySQL Conference and still managed to get into any number of shenanigans.   Still, that is no excuse.  Let me give a summary of some of the interesting things we’ve been up to:

* Helping a client in the midst of a 10x growth period.

* Assisting clients in SOX compliance and acquisition readiness.

* Numerous upgrades to 5.1.

* Integrating Percona xtrahotbackup with MySQL-zrm

* Rolling out and tuning Percona 5.1 binaries w/xtraDB plugin

* Using mk-query-digest to help clients get visibility into their systems without turning on invasive logging.

* Security audits and roll-outs (much to the dismay of developer communities across the world! *evil laugh here*)

* Implementation of a new database historical tracker that combines rancid schema and user monitoring, historical versioning and historical volumetrics. (more on this soon!)

* Breakdancing!

* and much much more.

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So, I’ve decided to focus on the strategy of database design and growth as the theme of my blogging. There will also be some tactical posts, particularly in regards to tools, scenarios and solutions that I’ve come across. My goal with this? To create something that my customers and other web-businesses can use to encourage their creative juices and to be more proactive with their own database infrastructures.

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