Presenting at the MySQL UG NL Meetup Q2
Next Friday (31st of May) the second MySQL Meetup User Group NL of this year will be hosted by Snow IT in Geldermalsen. It is great to see that various companies are hosting the meetup and that the...
View ArticleDatabase TCO presentation
Speaking about MySQL UG NL Meetups – during the Q1 Meetup in February (hosted by Spil Games) one of our DBAs gave a presentation on database TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). We would like to share it...
View ArticleBig data processing with Disco
Those who deal with big data probably know about Disco – a distributed computing framework aimed to provide a MapReduce platform for big data processing Python applications. We are proud to say that we...
View ArticleMySQL StatsD project on Github
Done is better than perfect. That is one of Spil Games Engineering’s principles and it is really something I embrace. Almost one and a half year ago, Engineering started to use StatsD and Graphite for...
View ArticleHow we tamed Sphinx Search
It is no secret that Spil Games is a heavy user of Sphinx Search. We use it in many ways including game-search, profile-search and since a few months ago to even build our category and subcategory...
View ArticleFollow up on FOSDEM
After my presentation at FOSDEM I got a few questions regarding our Galera implementation and why we did things the way we want. First of all, the slides: Spil Games @ FOSDEM: Galera Replicator IRL...
View ArticleSpil Games hackday: research MaxScale
Spil Games hackday At Spil Games we organise a monthly hackday (actually the last two Thursday/Friday of the month) where several teams try to hack something in limited amount of time. The only rules...
View ArticleMySQL StatsD release 0.1.3
About one and a half years ago we created MySQL StatsD to keep get insights of any MySQL server using a local daemon that frequently queries the MySQL server and pushes its data to StatsD locally. In...
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