Congruency

This week Opera Software sent Espen and myself on a MySQL customer conference, to learn a thing or two about MySQL and talk with the gurus.

Especially a couple of presentations by MySQL sales engineer Ivan Zoratti regarding performance and horizontal scalability options was very interesting and highly relevant to the Opera Community, where he gaves us some ideas about where our current solution is lacking.

Currently we have scaled horizontally by adding more nodes to our database server farm. However, due to the relatively little amount of RAM and parallel processing power of our current nodes, the solution is far from optimal. We have therefore decided to rather scale our master node vertically, that is add a lot of proper hardware.

The performance aspects of Zoratti's talks taught us a lot though, and I'll employ some of those tricks as soon as I can. And while we are scaling vertically this time, we'll need to think seriously about horizontal scaling in the future, given our current growth.

After the conference, Opera was conincidentally holding the Opera Backstage event, so we went there and grabbed a few free beers, and also got the opportunity to briefly say hello to some of our revered community members