Shawn on the net

I’m a programmer by choice but a DBA/Sysadmin by need.  Thats not to say I don’t really enjoy the other two roles just that I don’t always focus on improving my skills in either as much as I do my development skills.  Given that a larger and larger portion of my work these days revolves around scaling databases and systems I’ve started to focus more on improving this side of my skillset.  This week I’ve started reading High Performance MySql Second Edition.  I’ve only read the first few seconds but already have a long list of notes about things I didn’t know about or worse yet thought I knew about but was wrong about.

I’ll post a full follow up once I’ve completed it but it’s starting out looking really good.