http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looks like a new startup called Kickfire has thought of a way to improve MySQL query throughput. I know from my previous work how difficult it can be to scale MySQL. Looks like they are considering doing query processing in hardware. I wonder what Venu thinks. It is an interesting ... http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/06/interesting-technology-from-kickfire/ Searchmonkey has launched! Semantic web seems to slowly becoming a reality http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/15/searchmonkey-launches/ We are wrapping up a successful security week at Yahoo tomorrow. It was an interesting conference with lots of viewpoints presented. http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/15/security-week-2008/ Shotguns and Beer http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/04/dont-mess-with-the-redneck/ Good quote I read at Yahoo. So Google released their new AppEngine yesterday a few days ago. Of course, all Technical Yahoos have to check out what the folks down the street are working on. I didn't take a look at things too closely, but my big question is "OK? what's ... http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/10/infrastructure-for-infrastructures-sake/ So, Jen and I decided about 6 months ago to start new (for her) characters in World of Warcraft together. I know, I know, we are total dorks. Well, I have finally hit the current level cap of 70 and she is close behind at 69. We have been playing ... http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/05/wow-ding-70-yay/ Some of you may wonder what I really do at Yahoo since I joined in Sept 2007. Well, here is the brief description. I work in the Core Software Infrastructure Group at Yahoo. We are basically the people who provide the standard Yahoo LAMP serving stack, minus the L (which ... http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/29/my-relatively-new-job/ Wow, I am now a part of the blogging revolution. I suppose I should start thinking of some decent material to have on this site. Eventually, that will happen :) http://www.ericbalsa.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/28/my-first-article/