Mark Callaghan (Facebook) posted two graphs showing the improvements Facebook got in optimizing the speed of accepting connections in MySQL1.
First thing I thought of was persistent connections are always fast and you should always use a connection pool. Even if Facebook is a using…
end of the nightmare
beginning of another persistent illusion
Kids, back in 2012, your aunt Robin wanted to do something more with her life. So she took her love of guns to an organization called S.H.I.E.L.D and fought alongside the Avengers.
Now, your Uncle Barney and I took it pretty hard; she was getting to spend a lot of time with another billionaire playboy, this guy named Tony Stark. Your Uncle Barney almost went crazy when he found out the guy had a metal suit.
“It shoots fireballs, Ted! He looks like a freakin’ storm trooper!”
Then your uncle Barney decided to fight back.
And Lily showed up and was like, “I’m in a Joss Whedon thing too.”
When I read the text, I hear Ted’s voice reading that in my head. #truestory
