3 years ago, the Drupal community and the documentation team inspired me powerfully and had me bowing for their great contributions, and so I had written a little HowTo for creating a custom login bar for Drupal 5. I had just written and placed it somewhere under one of the various Drupal handbooks, wondering if anybody would read and find it useful.
At my (new) day job I joined the team responsible for the scalability and reliability of a heavily loaded LAMP stack. Since our MySQL server has plenty of memory, we were recently wondering if we could load all MySQL into memory and what would be the benefit.
A bit of googling, and I found out that there were few others asking the same question, however, I didn't see any satisfactory answers that are coming from real experience or benchmarks, and so we decided to benchmark for ourselves and see.
Almost all applications, modules and social web sites I use stopped working with Jaiku since they moved to AppEngine and introduced a new API based on OAuth for authorization and secure communication of REST requests.
If you use Drupal like me, then upgrading to the next minor release must be something you do every couple of months. I never asked anybody how they do it. So here I will write how I do it, in the same time I will be actually upgrading my blog to Drupal 6.6.
