Category: announcements

Updating to Java 1.6

As of changeset 4d9e2702f31b478ef070b966961fbae2407cadcb the HEAD release of HiveDB requires Java6 (1.6). We were trying to maintain compatibility with both Java5 and Java6 but were unable to do so due to changes in the DataSource interface.
We have changed our default connection pooling implementation from DBCP to C3P0. C3P0 has better failure […]

By britt | 22 Apr 08 | Also posted in java | Comments (0)

Switching from SVN to Git

We are switching our version control repository from Subversion to Git. Initially I read Why Distributed Version Control Matter to You, Today and shrugged my shoulders and said, “Maybe so, but subversion works fine.” However we recently ran into a situation where we needed more robust branching and merging features than Subversion had […]

By britt | 24 Mar 08 | Also posted in documentation, programming | Comments (1)

Come see us at MySQL Conf

Horizontal Scaling with HiveDB

Presented by: Britt Crawford (Cafepress.com), Justin McCarthy (Cafepress.com)
Time: 10:50am - 11:50am Thursday, 04/17/2008
Tracks: Architecture and Technology, General, Java, LAMP, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Replication and Scale-Out
Location: Ballroom D

Massively scalable systems used to be the sole province of large corporations with acronyms for names and budgets the size of a small country’s […]

By britt | 18 Mar 08 | Comments (0)