2Media Temple, home of the Grid Server which I wrote about here, has just posted an excellent post on their blog, titled Anatomy of MySQL on the Grid Server. It Acknowledge MySQL issues in the current grid server platform. Talk about their old load balancing system for MySQL, and why it did not work. Discuss [...]
MySQL upgrade and unicode issues
A few days ago I upgraded/emerged MySQL installation on my Unixshell Gentoo box from 4.1.14 to 4.1.19. As it emerges, it also replaced the default configuration file and now uses utf8 as the default encoding to database and client libraries. I also re-emerged dev-lang/php-5.1.4, and it turned out all my unicode on PHP sites are [...]