References
Here’s what people are blogging about us!!!
Dogster.com - Great Database Consulting
SELECT great(Database Consulting) FROM ‘Dogster, Inc’
For most of the past year we have had the pleasure of having one of the best DBA’s in the business working with us at Dogster and Catster, Laine Campbell. I have known Laine since 2000 when she joined Travelocity as a Senior DBA and we have worked together off and on since then. Recently, she has been putting more effort into developing her consulting business and Dogster is very grateful that she did.
Castfire.com - (Wonderful) DBA’s are a wonderful thing
Many sites worry about the Digg effect — their traffic can be overwhelming. We have always built with the mindset of having all of customers getting Dugg at the same time and it has worked like a charm. Yesterday, however, we got the true Digg effect: Federated Media is running video ads through Castfire ON Digg. Instantly, our system monitors alerted all of us that the system was starting to perform slowly under the increased load. Uh oh…feels scary!
Dogster-com - Nice Performance Boost By Migrating MyISAM Tables to InnoDB
Recently we migrated 18 MySQL MyISAM tables to InnoDB. (We would have changed another 20 smaller ones if we weren’t hamstrung by a OS issue we’ll be resolving soon.)The change has significantly reduced the overall load as well as short-term spikes on our master database. Below you see a chart of our primary master’s 15, 5 and 1 minute average loads over the last 3 weeks. As you can see this critical machine is now much calmer and ready to handle significantly more capacity.
read the full blog post here
Client Recommendations
“Having worked with Laine in the past at Travelocity, I was very confident in hiring her as our DBA consultant. In her first day she had identified many ways in which we could improve our database systems. She has been key to our ability to scale and increase performance and yet stay within our resource limits.”
Atom Entertainment/MTV Networks
“Laine has done DBA consulting for us since 2006. We have worked with her on a variety of projects. A major project was just completed to completely reorganize our membership database. We have had great results with Laine and she is very highly recommended.”
“Laine easily understood what our requirements were, did effective research to design and confirm a plan, and followed up through to execution. It was a pleasure to work with her and I would hire her again.” June 18, 2007
“Laine was an exceptional worker, and a tremendous assest to the team and to the company. Her knowledge of Database architecture was superb, and her problem solving ability unmatched. Laine was always ready and willing to step in and accept the most difficult of project tasks, and was always willing to provide her opinion and recommendations on how best to proceed. I would recommend Laine without any hesitation.”
“Laine is a highly skilled technical manager. She possesses proficiency in areas like project management, team leadership, negotiation, mentoring, conflict resolution, and architecting useful solutions to complex technical and organizational problems. Laine would be a great asset to any environment that requires a technical manager to bring leadership, organization, stability, and vision.”
“Laine is a highly technical DBA who sets a very high standard. She expects the very best from herself and those she works with. I found Laine to be aggressive at learning new technologies and great at applying them to solve various business challenges.
Laine is a great catalyst for positive change. She addresses issues straight on, precise and professional yet able to look at the human aspect of the issue; this is a quality I find ever so hard to find. She is a true leader and I will work with her again.
