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"We took 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD's and put them in RAID to make this awesome computer! See how we did it, and what the results were!"

Pretty cool stuff, wouldn't mind them in my computer at all. Just wished they used a redundant RAID setup so they can yank out random drives and see how it recovers :)

There are some helpful tips in here, whether or not you use replication. In my experience, the most important thing with database performance is to minimize the time and row range over which you hold write locks -- and that's what this post is essentially about.

Quoted: Piping data through application is the best solution in many cases and is quite easy - it is trivial to write the function which will take SELECT query and the table to which store its result set and use in your application in all cases when you need this functionality.

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Quoted: 現代のオブジェクト指向言語の処理系で、最もパフォーマンスに影響するのはインスタンスの生成です。そのため、言語仕様として、プリミティブ型を用意することがパフォーマンス上、重要です。Java の場合は、int 型と Integer 型があり、Java 5 からは暗黙の型キャストが行われます。

JavaScript でも、あまり知られていませんが、プリミティブ型があり、オブジェクトへの暗黙の型キャストが行われています。

Quoted: Resource guide on how to install Vista Service PAck 1 (SP1), along with where to find help if you run into problems.
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Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading

Quoted: In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build ...