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Re: Scaling mysql to 25,000 INSERTS per second

Ryan Tomlinson — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:54:29 -0000

Nice write up. Without knowing the architecture in detail I wonder if you could look at parallel programming to target multi cores. You still might have a limit on throughput in terms of SQL inserts but the uncompressing and business logic side of things may be improved by using language features to target seperate cores....just a thought!

Re: Scaling mysql to 25,000 INSERTS per second

Chris Neale — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:47:33 -0000

Very interesting.

Re: We banked our first cheque! StormMQ is trading!

Storagebeds — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:38:10 -0000

Congrats, look forward to read similar success stories from your side:D

Re: We banked our first cheque! StormMQ is trading!

Justin Souter — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:12:51 -0000

Congrats - a tremendous success story, and props to the whole team for all the hard work and getting it nailed! :-D

Re: Upscaling servers makes sense, but upscaling a system is better.

rosscooney — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:13:47 -0000

Yep Rev, focusing on the macro can often be better than the micro!

Re: Upscaling servers makes sense, but upscaling a system is better.

Rev Royce — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:40:54 -0000

I agree...working on server upgrades brings benefits, but true value is found by upgrading and upscaling the whole system.

Re: It all started with ‘Downtime is Unacceptable’, Announcing Google Grope!

paulsheperia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:32:10 -0000

Sounds like a missed a great event this week and the competition sounds like a challenge Ross.

Re: Advance Fee Fraud turned on it’s head by Mother London

Peter Johnson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:23:09 -0000

Absolutely classic...I love it!

Re: Agile programming rocks! (Codeworks digital bootcamp)

davidturnbull — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:30:50 -0000

Thanks for putting the slides up, I found the whole day very useful and will be trying to implement this theory in my university team project!

Re: Backup script for a LAMP server

RockyMtnHi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:05:55 -0000

We use a similar script for backing up Wordpress databases at http://www.21stsoft.com/wordpr....

Re: Bootstrap and Transition

rosscooney — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:43:53 -0000

I gave a presentation that describes this at the Dublin CloudCamp on 17th September 2009, you can see a video here:
http://www.viddler.com/explore...

Re: Bootstrap and Transition, the advantages of cloud computing

rosscooney — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:42:38 -0000

I gave this presentation at CloudCamp Dublin on 17th September 2009. It went very well and you can see a video of it here:
http://www.viddler.com/explore...

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

rosscooney — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:02:40 -0000

excellent idea Rob! I have found this chart type:
http://code.google.com/apis/vi...

This is how Hans and the guys at gapminder.org draw their graphs. I will start to collect the correct data and map it out over the next few weeks.

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

Rob Colling — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:55:55 -0000

Nice work, Ross. That's really interesting, and a very easy-to-understand way to present the information. Hans Rosling would be proud!

Actually, that makes me wonder whether gapminder.org might be one way to show the change over time? It'd be simple, if maybe not quite as elegant as doing it yourselves. (I have a wonderful vision of the map colours animating to show the last few hours, a bit like the BBC weather maps!)

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

rosscooney — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:28:49 -0000

I am not sure. Almost all spam is sent using botnets or viruses, but significant amounts of spam is also relayed upon the networks of corrupt ISP's. We don't do enough analysis of the actual owners of IP's used to send spam. We are setting up an internal research project to find this data.

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

Justin Souter — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:21:12 -0000

Ross - building on Chris' point: maybe it's because Brazil has lots of hacked machines and they are acting as re-broadcast points for the spam?

I.e. does this map say something about the overall level of security / patching on machines in this country? Or maybe operating systems?

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

rosscooney — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:59:20 -0000

Hi Chris, I have updated the post with more information on how we get the data, but the map is drawn every hour by analysing the most recent 250,000 data points across our UK and US scan clusters. This data is analysed and stored in a database in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and IP’s are pinpointed on the map by using the GeoIP database. We save significant amounts of time by using memcached to cache IP lookups. Finally, we use the Google Charts API to draw the map.

We generate around 250,000 data points every two hours, so the map is useful as it can show the move of traffic across the world depending on time. For example, we see more spam from Brazil during the UK morning hours and a significant spike from India, China and Korea in the UK evenings. We have not been able to find a reason for this yet but we guess that it is related to work pasterns of the various spam teams.

Our next goal is to find a way to show the changes over a 24, 48 and 168 hour period.

Re: The location of spammers on a world map

Chris Neale — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:50:52 -0000

Fascinating stuff. It's much more distributed than I'd have thought it would be given the spam I get. Which address are you using to get the geolocation information? Could there be an open proxy in Brazil that's getting absolutely hammered by someone somewhere else in the world?

Re: Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

annoyedofstafford — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:46:28 -0000

I can absolutely guarentee that it is accurate and current

Re: Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

A concerned party — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:25:23 -0000

I'm not sure whether it is accurate, although there does appear to be a new address for Jane, based in the Stafford area for anyone who needs to make contact.

I wont post the address here, although it can be found on the following website:
http://www.bni-europe.com/view...

Re: Big fun at the Big Ideas Youth Challenge

Samuel Crowe — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:25:22 -0000

Awesome workshop. I think we may have to move our offices out of dublin though.

Re: Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

annoyedofstafford — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:52:20 -0000

If you would like a contact address for Jane Alexander then may I suggest you put Jane Alexander BNI Staffordshire into Google, that address is current

Re: Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

annoyedofstafford — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:46:35 -0000

Jane and David are no longer together as a couple

Re: Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

annoyedofstafford — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:42:29 -0000

Jane Alexander has moved down to work in Stafford, previously a member of BNI Kendal and Assistant Director there she has left Kendal owning many people money and with her business reputation severly damaged. She has set up with BNI in Staffordshre and Shropshire working as an Assistant director there.

Interestingly I discovered that people in BNI in Staffordshire believe that she sold her "sucessful" internet company and do not know it went into liquidation, or about the 2nd attempt that failed.

Re: Big fun at the Big Ideas Youth Challenge

rosscooney — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:35:28 -0000

Cheers Lisa, I really enjoy working with young and talented people. I have recently moved my responsibility at Joseph Swan School to the 'Gifted and Talented' department so that I can help mentor, train and hopefully inspire a new round of talent. Running your own business is hard but rewarding work....the work that you and your team do at Big Ideas is very important as it raises expectations and lowers barriers for entry. Thanks for letting me get involved.