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DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven

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DRBD has grown in popularity as an excellent low-cost high availability solution for MySQL. It provides synchronous replication of your data without MySQL having to worry too much about the details. Combined with Linux Heartbeat, and you have automatic failover as well. By using this Operating System level replication, you avoid some of the problems of MySQL's statement based replication, data discrepencies between your nodes, and configuration file complexity. No more failing slave nodes!

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New Year, Lots of New Books (and an iPhone app)!

By Courtney Nash
January 5, 2010

Are you sitting down? Hopefully you are, because we've got a lot to discuss here. Since the last time we posted, we've released four more new books, and an iPhone app to boot. Speaking of iPhone apps, let's start with...

Africa's "Gutenberg Moment?"

By Andrew Savikas
January 5, 2010

This post from Publishing Perspectives about publishing in Africa came in over the break, and it's worth a look: Five years later, [Muhtar] Bakare is still a confident believer in the power of the internet to revolutionize the African publishing industry. “The internet is our own Gutenberg moment,” he told the Oslo audience. “The internet is going to democratize knowledge...

A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One

By Tim O'Reilly
January 5, 2010

There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I'm going to focus on what Android's latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape - what I've elsewhere called the war for the web. Android vs. iPhone is one important front in that "war." News from the front: a possible turning point for...

The Ultimate Control Panel (Aka God Mode)

By William Stanek
January 5, 2010

William here. Wandering the stream on a slow Tuesday. Kids are at school and it's so quiet. By now you may have heard about an alternate Control Panel view some folks are calling God mode and probably because God mode...

What Company Will Be the eHarmony of Microblogging?

By Mark Drapeau
January 5, 2010

A New York Times article by David Carr rehashing common knowledge on "why Twitter will endure" got me thinking about the ways in which it will not endure, or the ways in which it may endure via which no one will really care about it. So, what does it mean to "endure"? To stay in business? So what - Lord...

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