performance

I’m posting about this tidbit because Google seemed to know nothing about it. Anyway, during the view building process, we may see the following in the couchdb.log (level = info, at least, in local.ini): [...] [info] [...] checkpointing view update at seq 78163851 for citations _design/erlang [...] [debug] [...] New task status for citations _design/erlang: Processed 17844590 of 107444308 changes (16%) [...] [debug] [...] New task status for citations _design/erlang: Processed 17848060 of 107444308 changes (16%) [....

Update, 2009-10-24: Fixed a bug, and committed a couple other improvements — TillStore 0.2.0 is released! I went to nosqlberlin last week and I got inspired. I listened to a lot of interesting talks — most notably about Redis, CouchDB, Riak and MongoDB (I’m omitting two talks, which of course were not less awesome than the rest!) Due to an unfortunate circumstance I had six hours to hack on stuff from Thursday to Friday....

I’ve been wrestling with a couple views in CouchDB currently. This blog post serves as mental note to myself, and hopefully to others. As I write this, i’m using 0.9.1 and 0.10.0 in a production setup. Here’s the environment: Amazon AWS L Instance (ami-eef61587) Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) CouchDB 0.9.1 and 0.10.0 database size: 199.8 GB documents: 157408793 On to the tips These are some small pointers which I gathered by reading different sources (wiki, mailing list, IRC, blog posts, Jan …)....

I went to Hamburg last weekend to visit the PHP Unconference, which was probably my first conference ever. I’ve been to a couple barcamps and other smaller events, but anyway, this felt more like a real conference to me. That is, if I exclude ALA and the various ad:tech’s I had to go to. The reasons why I usually avoid tech conferences include foremost the price tag (working for myself, I can technically label it as an expense, but I still have to pay for it), doubts that it’ll be worth it in terms of knowledge gained and probably time....

Sorry, this is all in German. Or at least Germenglish. ;-) The slides are not rocket science and show a basic introduction to “faster PHP”. Things to do, things to avoid, some autoloading and a little on “shared nothing” in the end. There are some speaker-notes included (link) to make the slides more valuable for those who couldn’t make it. Hier die Folien zu meinem Vortrag “PHP in schnell” bei der PHP Usergroup in Berlin im September 2009....