Author Archives: Silvan Mühlemann

What motivates your programmer?

We’d like to deliver great products on tilllate.com. For great products you need motivated developers. So recently, Leo, Stefan, Maarten, Mario and me did a brainstorming about “what motivates programmers”. Here are the results: 1. Offer him the best type … Continue reading

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Avoid the query: Peter spoke at webtuesday.

After a day of speaking about about memcached, squid and sharding at the tilllate offices, Peter was still fresh enough to hold a talk about Advanced MySQL Query Optimization for the Webtuesday (notably on a Wednesday). Even though we announced … Continue reading

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Peter Zaitsev of the MySQL Performance Blog speaks in Zurich

Busy week for the open source IT pros around Zürich: On Thursday Vint Cerf will talk at Google. On Wednesday, Nov 21st tilllate is happy to announce a presentation of Peter Zaitsev of the MySQL Performance Blog. He will talk … Continue reading

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Squid and Mysql metric scripts for Ganglia

After a long day of meetings and other tedious manager work the perfect way to relax is to code. The best is a mini-projects where you see your results after an hour or so. I call these tasks “Plausch-Projekte” (“plah-oosh … Continue reading

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Query Optimization Challenge

Every few months at tilllate we play the query optimization game. At this game I use the slow query log to find out those queries the most load on the servers. With the queries I found I then either: optimize … Continue reading

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Five ways to impress at the job interview

As CTO I often have to do job interviews. Recently, I spent two days interviewing candidates for our tilllate development center Belgrade (Yes, I am one of these brave CTOs having a distributed team :-)). So here’s five tips to … Continue reading

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Visit of the Silverlight evangelists

There are two ways convince a company to switch to a new programming language. The old fashioned way is to send out salesperson. They get in touch with the CEO show them a few Power-Point slides, throw some buzzwords at … Continue reading

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Sharedance, Memcached and Cache_Lite

With 125 million page impressions a month and highly dynamic content, caching is essential for tilllate.com. At tilllate, we have worked with several different caching techniques. Before we used caching, we just pre-generated the data: A nightly cron job populates … Continue reading

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Applikationen von Drittanbietern integrieren.

Bei tilllate ist momentan eine Diskussion zum Thema “Integration von externen Applikationen auf www.tilllate.com” im Gange. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet Kosten und Risiken einer solchen Integration. Beispiel: Anstatt ein Forum selbst zu entwickeln, soll FUDForum oder phpBB genommen werden und auf … Continue reading

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PHP5-Entwickler im Aufstieg

“Ihr habt spannende Projekte, ein tolles Team, fünf Wochen Ferien… aber tut mir leid… Ihr arbeitet mit PHP… Ich möchte eher Richtung Java gehen“, hat ein Bewerber für die Software-Entwickler-Stelle seine Absage begründet. Ich denke, das Image von PHP ist … Continue reading

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