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Happy birthday MySQL Bug #36810
- ahpeeyem 17y agoGosh Courier font with Courier text in the background image is a bit hard to read.
- emmett 17y agohttp://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ - solves that problem nicely :-)
- hapless 17y agoIronically, the "Readability" site uses text embedded in images. Needless to say, this is totally unreadable by many of the people most interested in the service.
- brown 17y agoThe hacker in me feels great sympathy. That is a painful bug. The software engineer in me cringes at the thought of upgrading a production system without testing in the lab first.
- SwellJoe 17y agoThe system administrator in me cringes at the thought of having a production server running a hodge podge of random from-source builds of apparently everything in the stack. That's just asking to suffer. And all for the sake of maybe a 5% performance gain by having it "optimized" for the workload (and maybe a performance drop because you do something stupid, or you don't understand the software in question as well as the package builder for your OS).
- jussij 17y agoSo what happened to the back out plan?
- zmimon 17y agoThat's one of the (I think) less appreciated benefits of running on a service like EC2. You can have all the plans in the world and still find yourself up the creek without a paddle when some impossible or very hard to revert upgrade goes wrong. But with EC2 it's a simple as taking a snapshot of the image prior to upgrading. Even better, you can fire up a brand new instance based off the current production image and upgrade that and only bring it on line when you're happy it's working - then just decommission the old one when you're done.
- erlanger 17y agoNice tale. Another reminder to always test on dev before pushing updates.