https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/scalability/ Recent content in Scalability on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:43:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-reliable-and-dependable-application-requires-observability-2022-09-29/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:43:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-reliable-and-dependable-application-requires-observability-2022-09-29/ Observability (o11y) is a critical pre-requisite component in software architecture when advocating for and preparing organizations for making informed decisions on the success of their application. Open Telemetry from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is the goto standard regardless of your choices of monitoring tools. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/performance-v-scalability-for-employers-2013-12-04/ Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:20:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/performance-v-scalability-for-employers-2013-12-04/ In a recent discussion with a fellow peer reviewing a job description he was applying for, we got into a discussion on the specifics of a Performance Engineer verses a Scalability Engineer. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-scalability-principles-to-avert-downtime-2011-04-23/ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:39:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-scalability-principles-to-avert-downtime-2011-04-23/ In the press in the last two days has been the reported outage of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in just one North Virginia data center. This has affected many large website includes FourSquare , Hootsuite , Reddit and Quora . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/part-2-simple-lessons-in-improving-scalability-2011-02-24/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:23:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/part-2-simple-lessons-in-improving-scalability-2011-02-24/ Given the popular response from my first lesson in improving scalability where I detailed simple ways to eliminate unnecessary SQL, let me share another common bottleneck with MySQL scalability that can be instantly overcome. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/simple-lessons-in-improving-scalability-2011-02-16/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:58:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/simple-lessons-in-improving-scalability-2011-02-16/ It can be very easy to improve scalability with a MySQL server by a few simple rules. Here is one of them. “The most efficient way to improve an SQL statement is to eliminate it” https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/otn-mysql-conference-slides-2010-11-03/ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:28:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/otn-mysql-conference-slides-2010-11-03/ 2010 has been the first year I have re-presented any of my developed MySQL presentations. Historically I have always created new presentations, however Paul Vallee gave me some valuable advice at UC 2010. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/common-mysql-scalability-mistakes-2010-10-02/ Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:32:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/common-mysql-scalability-mistakes-2010-10-02/ This week I was one of the presenters at the first Surge Scalability Conference in Baltimore. An event that focused not just on one technology but on what essential tools, technologies and practices system architects need to know about for successfully scaling web applications. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/successful-mysql-scalability-presentation-2010-09-17/ Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:33:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/successful-mysql-scalability-presentation-2010-09-17/ Last night I was the invited guest at the SF MySQL Meetup . In my presentation “Successful MySQL Scalability” I talked about a set of principles to ensure appropriate system architecture, data availability and best practices to build an ideal solution for your business. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/speaking-at-surge-scalability-2010-2010-07-28/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:53:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/speaking-at-surge-scalability-2010-2010-07-28/ I will be joining a great list of quality speakers including John Allspaw, Theo Schlossnagle, Rasmus Lerdorf and Tom Cook at Surge 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland on Thu 30 Sep, and Fri Oct 1st 2010.