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MySQL data migration

June 18, 2009

I’ve been working with MySQL throughout my career (11 years and still going strong), and have grown to really love it and favor it over any other database out there. It’s rock solid, stable, and with MySQL 5 it also gained clustering capabilities.
As a developer, refactoring is comething I do pretty often. Renaming classes, methods, [...]

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Linux Memory usage

June 2, 2009

I just stumbled upon an excellent blog article on how to interpret linux memory usage. While one might think that linux is a memory hog by looking at the Free Memory stats at /proc/meminfo or the “top” utility, it actually caches as much as it can of the memory, that being the main reason why [...]

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