O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011
2011-04-11..2011-04-14
Santa Clara, United States
who it's for
mysql database administrators, backend engineers, database architects, site reliability engineers, data engineers, open source database contributors, cloud infrastructure engineers
topics
MySQL 5.5 and InnoDB; sharding with gizzard and flockdb; t-bird and Snowflake IDs; Hadoop HDFS batch analytics; Vertica columnar analytics; Cassandra high-write use cases; Drizzle microkernel plugin architecture; MariaDB optimizer and dynamic columns; replication strategies and multi-threaded slave; cloud deployments on EC2/EBS/S3; online backups and XtraBackup; HandlerSocket NoSQL plugin
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Big and Small Data at @Twitter | Jeremy Cole | 34m |
Twitter handles about 155 million tweets per day (roughly 1,700/sec average, peaks near 7,000/sec) and adds ~460,000 accounts daily. Core storage uses MySQL… | ||
| Building on Strengths, Learning from Differences | Baron Schwartz | 29m |
Argument that open source databases must evolve into systems that natively shard and scale to tens of terabytes and beyond to petabytes, run efficiently on… | ||
| Causes of Downtime in MySQL | Baron Schwartz | 05m |
Analysis of several hundred emergency cases finds three main categories of downtime with most faults outside MySQL in the operating environment; the single top… | ||
| The Next Decade in Data Management | Mike Olson | 28m |
Argues that MySQL won by being good enough for early web scale but modern web apps demand scale-out designs that assume hardware failure, absorb “fire hose”… | ||
| The Art of Data Visualization | David Holoboff | 05m |
A whirlwind survey of historical and modern graphics that points to specific techniques and findings: shows a 1954 life-span chart, a 1972 subway map-style… | ||
| Scale Fail | Josh Berkus | 05m |
A satire of scaling advice that lists concrete anti-patterns with examples: choose tech by Reddit buzz (build with Clojure and Qt), avoid performance graphs… | ||
| State of Drizzle | Brian Aker | 29m |
Drizzle is a fork that ships GA in 2011 and removes legacy MySQL cruft to become a microkernel plugin architecture that shortens parser conflicts and speeds… | ||
| Data in the Cloud | Marten Mickos | 25m |
Argues that the traditional LAMP stack gives way to a mixed ensemble where MySQL sits alongside MongoDB, Cassandra, Sphinx and Hadoop; cloud deployments favor… | ||
| State of MariaDB | Michael Widenius | 27m |
MariaDB presents concrete progress: 5.2 is stable, 5.3 enters alpha/beta while a 5.5 merge is planned; the optimizer is reworked yielding 100x speedups on many… | ||
| State of the Dolphin | Tomas Ulin | 39m |
Oracle ships eight (actually nine) GA MySQL products in the first year after acquisition and declares the GPL server committed to continued development… | ||
| State of the Elephant | Ed Boyajian | 22m |
Postgres reports roughly 8–9 million annual downloads with community builds accounting for about 3–4 million, EnterpriseDB serving ~900 customers, and broad… | ||
| Awards | david xmock, michael within | 06m |
Community awards list concrete contributions: Yasufumi Kinoshita wins for specific InnoDB improvements merged into the InnoDB plugin for MySQL55 and XtraDB and… | ||
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