Posts tagged 'parallel'

Taco Bell Parallel Programming

While working on migrating support.mozilla.org away from Kitsune (which is a great community support platform that needs love, remember that internet) I needed to convert about 4M database rows of a custom, Markdown inspired, format to HTML.

The challenge of the task is that it needs to happen as fast as possible so we can dump the database, convert the data and load the database onto the new platform with the minimum possible time between the first and the last step.

I started a fresh MySQL container and started hacking:

Load the database dump

Kitsune's database weights about …

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