Aurimas Mikalauskas

Lithuania Lithuania

MySQL Performance Consultant, Audiobook Enthusiast

Writing / Publishing

100% geek. Since the age of 14. Deeply passionate about making internet technologies work faster (aka performance optimization), wider (scaling) and with fewer resources (inventory optimization). Knows and often uses phrases like "Disk IO alignment", "MySQL adaptive hash index", "sure you have backups?", "Resource profile", "Cachegrind", "Network listen queue overflow", "Throughput", "Coherency delay", "YES! We did it!", "Mutex contention", "Numa", "Let's profile it", "Systematic approach", "Response time". And few more verbs too! Speaks: SQL, PHP, Python, C (flat), LISP, AWK, Bourne, occasionally also English and Lithuanian. Famous for: thoroughness, laser sharp business goals focus,...