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krow.livejournal.com is a personal blog at krow.livejournal.com about programming, data and systems. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

25mentions?
11HN people?
2008–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts by a MySQL developer on libevent-based connection handling and performance, and on the Drizzle MySQL fork. Commenters cite them as follow-up material to threads on these topics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. They're planning to add "server side scripting" in any language to replace stored procedures. It sounds quite cool. http://krow.livejournal.com/638941.html I have been writing extensions to Postgresql in C++ recently, and it's amazing what you can do if you have the full flexibility of loading a .so into the db process and doing whatever you want.

    Comment linking /638941.html

    on “Oracle kills Virtual Iron. Is MySQL next?”
  2. Submitted Where did all of the MySQL Developers Go? as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. This article seems a bit over the top. I implemented the MySQL interface to libevent for mysql 6.0, and we got really good performance numbers vs. thread per connection: http://krow.livejournal.com/572937.html I've spent a fair amount of time inside the libevent library source, and I'm pretty sure adding new connections is constant time as far as the library goes. There is however the underlying cost of the event st…

    Comment linking /572937.html

    on “LShift is terrified by asynchronous libraries performance”
  4. Submitted Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm? as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. And: http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html

    Comment linking /602409.html

    on “Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet”
  6. Submitted Fear of forking as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Drizzle, Licensing, Having Honest Conversations with your Community as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Protocols, The GPL, Influences from MySQL as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Drizzle goes GA, From "What If", to "What has" as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Assumptions, Drizzle as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Road to Closed Source Software, Eucalyptus as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why does MySQL insert a NULL when a column is declared Not NULL? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Drizzle, Dexter, Beta is on the horizon as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Eben Moglen, Lazarus Phenomenon, and The Girl Scouts of America as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Time Warp, Solaris as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Databases, The End User Experience as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Can you GPL a Protocol? MySQL's GPL Overreach as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Data Dictionary Fun in Drizzle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted RMS, GPL, The Peculiar Institution of Dual Licensing as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Libmemcached, protocol handlers, rolling your own server as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Drizzle, Optimizer, Execution Flow as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Drizzle, Views And Triggers as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Stored Procedures or Server Side Scripting? (in Drizzle) as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted MySQL Engines, On the State of as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Google, YouTube, Data as a story · 1 points

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