I recently stumbled upon an amazing accurate article about how it would cost double to replace a developer on a legacy / complex code base. Being a developer myself I find that as time goes on the more under appreciated talent becomes, maybe the adage of familiarity breeds contempt but retaining good developers is imperative [...]

During a recent slave addition to our architechture I ran into a few problems getting the slave back up and running after it had stopped for a period of time. I ran into multiple errors which included Duplicate / Primary Keys,  missing tables, corrupted binary log entries etc. The solution was to use a handy [...]