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mySQL DBA, Architecture, Dev, Scale, HA, Code is a personal blog at mysqldba.blogspot.com about data and programming. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2007–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread about MySQL slowing under a few hundred users, as one of several resources on scaling MySQL, alongside the official docs and a Mikael Ronstrom blog.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. not a lot to go on, start here http://hackmysql.com/documents http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optimization.html http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/04/common-steps-to-scale-l... http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-making-mysql-cl...

    Comment linking /2008/04/common-steps-to-scale-linearly.html

    on “Ask HN: A few hundred users and MySQL started to complain...”
  2. Submitted InnoDB faster than NoSQL solutions? as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted MySQL Disk Benchmarks with Sysbench. When will mySQL / INNODB stop scaling? as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Spotify Top 200 in mySQL as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Show HN: Copy an innodb database from server to server in one command as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Amazon EBS mySQL Disk Throughput as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Automated Innodb Hot Backup to S3 from ec2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted What should I use MYISAM or INNODB? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Flickr DBA discusses MySQL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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