Farhan Mashraqi is a professional database architect and software engineer with a passion for scalability and hunting bottlenecks in large scale systems. He's employed as a senior DBA for Fotolog, Inc., the world's largest photo blogging community and 20th most trafficked site on the Internet. Farhan earned his bachelor of science degree in computer information systems from North Georgia College, and his bachelor of business administration degree in accounting from North Georgia College & State University. He blogs on Planet MySQL under the name Frank Mash and is the author of upcoming book Pro Rails - Building Enterprise Solutions.

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