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Ronald Bradford
Personal blog · ronaldbradford.com/blogdataprogramming
Ronald Bradford's personal blog at ronaldbradford.com covers data and programming. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his posts on MySQL and InnoDB internals, including MVCC limits and isolation levels such as SERIALIZABLE, plus database size and performance tips and slide decks. The comments cite these posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
MySQL Subject Matter Expert with 30 years in large-scale data systems. Author of the Effective MySQL series and conference speaker across 22 countries. Former Oracle ACE Director.
What Hacker News says?
Just ran into this link, which seems to describe how MVCC can sometimes not be enough. http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-innodb-mvcc-200...
Comment linking /blog/understanding-innodb-mvcc-2009-07-15/
on “The genius and folly of MongoDB”Submitted Monitoring MySQL as a story · 14 points
HN discussion...how modern are we talking? SERIALIZABLE existed over a decade ago. It's mentioned here in a 2009 post.[0] [0] https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-mysql-innodb-t...
Comment linking /blog/understanding-mysql-innodb-transaction-isolation-2009-09-24/
on “US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road”Submitted The most efficient way to improve an SQL statement is to eliminate it as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> nor do they have the resources to be. They have received large investments from companies like Intel, and have been granted extensive engineering (and probably financial) help from companies like Google and Facebook. Probably many others. And they have most of the MySQL brains-trust in their employ, Monty most famously. I don't know how anyone could argue they're under-resourced for the task of maintaining and imp…
Comment linking /blog/when-is-a-crashing-mysql-bug-not-a-bug-2012-08-15/
on “Making MySQL Better at GitHub”Submitted Improving performance – A full stack problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a database architect expert, I generally average a 25-30% reduction in the Disk Footprint of the database, sometimes with zero impact for application changes. I use a very simple equation. DISK = MEMORY = PERFORMANCE Reducing the size of the disk footprint, and therefore the amount of disk reads (disk is the slowest of the 4 physical mediums) you improve performance. By then enabling more data to be stored in the…
Comment linking /contact
on “20 tips for MySQL db architects”axod, you can download these slides and other MySQL related presentations directly from http://ronaldbradford.com/presentations/
Comment linking /presentations/
on “20 tips for MySQL db architects”