Archive for October 2008

International PHP Conference 2008: On sharding architectures

I gave a talk about sharding at the International PHP Conference 2008. I started with a short introduction about the problem that sharding tries to solve. Most of the talk was about the actual implementation and problems that people might run into if they try to use sharding in their projects. Ulf already gave a [...]

distcc with Ubuntu and Gentoo – Knowing your defaults

I didn’t use distcc for quite a while. Usually modern dual or quad CPUs are fast in enough to compile in a reasonable time, but after compiling PHP 100 times, I wanted to make things faster and use distcc with my server which otherwise just idles around. My laptop, where I usually compile PHP, is [...]