It has been a while since I posted on this blog. The more in depth articles are all posted on the Spil Games Engineering blog and I’m overcrowded with work in the past months that I hardly have any time left.
One of the reasons for having too much on my plate was my own doing: I volunteered to be a conference committee member for Percona Live London and we, as a committee, worked our way through all proposals while you all were enjoying your holidays in the sun. Well, I must admit I did review a couple of them sitting in the sun, next to the pool enjoying a cold drink. 😉
I must say there were so many great proposals it was really hard to choose which ones would be left out.
I also proposed a talk for Percona Live London this year and my fellow committee members liked it enough to make it to the final schedule: Serve out any page with an HA Sphinx environment.
In basis it is a MySQL case study where I will show how we at Spil Games use Sphinx Search in three different use cases: our main search, friend search and serving out our content on any page. I’ll also describe how we handle high availability, how we handle index creation and show benchmark results between MySQL and Sphinx in various use cases.
In case you are interested in Sphinx or the benchmark results: the session will be on the 4th of November at 3:10pm – 4:00pm in Cromwell 1 & 2.
Also don’t hesitate to ask me things when I’m wandering around in the corridors and rooms. Or maybe we’ll meet at the MySQL Community Dinner?
See you next week!
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