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21st March 2008 - Link Blog

mysql_cluster (via) My Russian isn’t all that good, but this looks like a neat way of getting Django to talk to a master/slave setup, written by Ivan Sagalaev. UPDATE: English docs are linked from the comments.

Posted 21st March 2008 at 8:45 am

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