In my last post, “Scaling the Database: Data Types,” I discussed the performance impact of data types and the repercussions of choosing the wrong data type. I also said, … You’ll notice that I actually added a new column, myNewID, to the table. This adds 4 bytes of space but serves a very valuable tuning …
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On Sense-Making, and Cynefin
“Sense-making is the way that humans choose between multiple possible explanations of sensory input.” -Dave Snowden How many of you have a friend/peer/co-worker in love with some new approach to solving problems? Whether it’s Scrum, Agile, or The Lean Startup, we all know people who jump on the latest trend and try to apply it …
Lessons Learned Working with an Agile Coach
My team started working with an Agile coach a few weeks ago. After several years of trying to make the change on our own, we enlisted the help of a dedicated expert. While it’s still early, the results are promising. Agile emphasizes the concept of self-organization. This sounds like a great thing. Give teams objectives …
Go Daddy Web Hosting Support for Mobile Devices
With mobile device traffic now comprising over 20% of the total U.S. Internet traffic, Go Daddy customers are increasingly looking for solutions to easily support mobile visitors to their websites. As mobile device traffic continues to grow, Go Daddy is sharpening its efforts in providing mobile solutions to our customers. The newest and simplest option …
Create a Website – No Genius Required!
Go Daddy’s Presence & Commerce organization has been busy defining our Minimal Viable Product(MVP) that is focused on building a tool to enable small businesses(SMBs) to create a website quickly and easily. The MVP development approach answers the question: “what would be required to get customers to engage with the product and tell their friends about …
SSL Innovations – Certificate Pinning
There are interesting times ahead for the venerable SSL (now TLS) standard for securing websites. On one hand, there have been vulnerabilities found in the protocol, including BEAST, CRIME, and most recently Lucky Thirteen. There was also the 2011 breach of DigiNotar in which rogue certificates for a number of the most popular sites on the Internet …
M.Dot goes To:Mobile From:Mobile
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are, you’ve heard the term “mobile first” used to describe designing a first-class mobile experience, not to be tacked on after the fact. But what about building a mobile website from a mobile device? Madness! Or is it… From Mobile? If you’re anything like me, your immediate …
The Secrets to Developing a Successful Web Design Business
The core strategy of a Web design business is identifying a solution for your customer’s problem – not simply selling them a website. Put yourself in your customer’s shoes and think about how you would want your website built if you were them. Then build your customer’s online presence around that concept. Remember, providing a …
CentOS 6 in Shared Hosting – How to Upgrade 1,000 Servers Without Downtime
Ask any system administrator how they feel about rebuilding a production server and you’ll probably hear a groan. Now imagine asking them to rebuild about 1,000 production servers that are hosting customer content, within 3 months, with zero downtime. You might expect pitchforks and torches to come out. I certainly did, because I had to …
Strata Conference 2013 Recap
Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2013 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA. This was my first trip to this particular conference and I wanted to take a little time to reflect on themes and share my observations. This conference is about Big Data. The Big Data field comprises technologies built to …
