Wie gelingt es wenigen Personen über Jahre hinweg immer wieder Interesse für ihre Vortrage zu wecken? Carola "Sammy" Koehntopp bietet während der FrOSCon 2011 eine PHPopstars-Veranstaltung an. Sie erklärt die Grundmuster hinter erfolgreichen Vorträgen, die gerne besucht werden und bittet … Continue reading →

After five years I am still in love with the PHP Unconference Hamburg (Germany), which took place last weekend. On Saturday morning I was as thrilled as if I was going to the first date with a person I had … Continue reading →

The PHP replication and load balancing plugin has a configuration setting to run all transactions on the master. But how to detect the start of a transaction? I got a hint to look at a flag in the client-server protocol … Continue reading →

SQL injection is wonderful! MySQL Proxy can do it, mysqlnd plugins – even written in PHP (not Lua or C) – can do it. Global Transaction IDs are wonderful. A mashup of the PHP replication plugin and global transaction ID … Continue reading →

While Andrey is busy implementing partitioned replication infrastructure code for the PHP replication and load balancing plugin (PECL/mysqlnd_ms), I continued my search for ideas to steal. Mr. Robert Hodges, I’ve robbed the idea of a service level and caching.. If … Continue reading →

The Mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin alpha release has focused on laying foundations for read-write splitting and load balancing. Thus, we can now look into more juicy topics such as support of schemata based partitioning to increase the granularity … Continue reading →

Frühlingsputz: weg mit den alten Zeitungen! Noch mehr Wohnung kann ich mir nicht leisten! Halt: das sind keine Fotomagazine, keine Geo-Hefte, keine Airbrush-Magazine und auch keine normalen Computerzeitschriften. Was mir in die Hände fällt sind Belegexemplare. Genussvoll blättere ich im … Continue reading →

The PHP replication and load balancing mysqlnd plugin as been released as an alpha through PECL. Alpha is for those who want to try out the 1.0 feature set as early as possible. Alpha is for those who do not … Continue reading →

Replication is as old as life on earth. No life without replication. MySQL replication is as old as MySQL, almost. No MySQL without replication. The PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.0.0 alpha release is brand new. My dream, no PHP without the mysqlnd library … Continue reading →

PECL/mysqlnd_ms is now transaction aware, sometimes. A new experimental configuration option trx_stickiness=master disables load balancing if autocommit mode is turned off via API. This makes the mysqlnd library plugin transaction safe. Unfortunately it requires PHP 5.3.99 and, it can be … Continue reading →