Jan 23 2008
Flixster powered by MySQL
I like Flixster! It’s a nice community where I can find quickly what movies should I rent for the weekend, I can read stories about actors, I can easily find some pictures with some cool actress or just waste my time with other people. But I’m a developer and now I love Flixster. Why? Because they selected the MySQL Enterprise database to power their businesses.
Let me show you some numbers! In 2007 Flixster had a monthly average of 10 million visitors. Right now are more than 1.3 billion movie reviews and over 45 million user homepages. Now, if they choose MySQL, you have one more reason to trust this great open-source database solution.
The announcement made by MySQL AB today isn’t so impressive comparing to the recent announcement about their agreement with Sun, but you have to admit that MySQL is the main choice of Web 2.0 companies. Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and now Flixster are the big names but thousands of other on-line applications made the same choice.
MySQL has a strong open source culture and this fact will probably lead to a community branch not controlled by Sun. Even this will happen or not, Web 2.0 business will continue to use MySQL. If you need a solution for ever-increasing traffic, a solution that scales as much as you want, MySQL is your choice because it’s easy, safe, reliable, cost-effective, and very fast!
sorry, but you promised about:config tweaks on http://www.bloganything.net/957/speed-up-firefox-startup and i’m still waiting…