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jstephens

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About jstephens

Sr. Systems Architect. Mostly work in Perl/Linux/MySQL and plot taking over a small island somewhere.

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    Comment #3353032

    Depending on what database you use you can do partial replication (only tables that aren't secrets) to a slave and then backup the slave. We use MySQL and that is possible. Also if…

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    Comment #3015713

    Redis also support PubSub, lists, ordered lists, and hashes. Not exactly a strict "key value" store.

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    Comment #2892920

    For perl it's fast as long as you have a small payload. Here's my benchmarks using progressively bigger data structures. perl: 5.008008 Storable: 2.21 JSON::XS: 2.25 Data::MessageP…

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    Comment #2847155

    Since I use the RSS I only spend an hour at most a day reading stuff on here, but I work a ~40 hour week usually.

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    Comment #2838623

    No. Each master has an offset so when you build a ring you give each master a different starting point. This keeps your ids in sync. So master1 would create ids: 1, 11, 21, 31, 41,…