Archive for October, 2009

Caching Strategies (AMS week #43)

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

This is the second post of our lecture notes from Aptoma Monday School - series (AMS). As it is lecture notes, you should expect the texsts to be a bit rough around the edges. We've decided to discuss and revise our caching strategies. Our session this week was spent settling ...

MySQL Query Cache

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

The following article is an in-depth look at Query Cache, mentioned briefly in our post about Caching Strategies. With Query Cache, the result set from SELECT queries are cached with the query command itself as key. Meaning that if a SELECT query initially executes in ten seconds, consecutive times the _exact_ ...

Aptoma Monday School, week #42

Monday, October 12th, 2009

We've launched a new initiative here at Aptoma, and we have given it the mundane name of 'Aptoma Monday School' (AMS). We could have been cool and written "Skool" or something like that, but we didn't. AMS is basically an intense hour each Monday @ 0900 hours which we dedicate to ...