Database

UTF-8 fields in MySQL">About using UTF-8 fields in MySQL

Posted by on 20 December, 2010 at 11:01 am

Joshua Thi­jssen writes; I some­times hear: “make every­thing utf-8 in your data­base, and all will be fine”. This so-called advice could not be fur­ther from the truth. Indeed, it will take care of inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion and code-page prob­lems when you use UTF-8, but it comes with a price, which may be too high for you to […]

High Scalability — More Troubles with Caching

Posted by on 1 October, 2010 at 6:41 pm

As a tasty pair­ing with Face­book And Site Fail­ures Caused By Com­plex, Weakly Inter­act­ing, Lay­ered Sys­tems, is another excel­lent tale of caching gone wrong by Peter Zait­sev, in an excit­ing twin billing: Cache Miss Storm and More on dan­gers of the caches. This is fas­ci­nat­ing case where the cause turned out to be soft­ware upgrade […]

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