Scaling MySQL - Up or Out?

Kaj Arnö is VP Community at MySQL AB. He promotes the 3 Ps of the MySQL Community: Popularity, Participation and Pioneering—connecting the external and internal MySQL developers with each other. Kaj believes there are internal connections between his favourite topics which include arranging meetings in a virtual organisation, coping with timezones, managing cross-cultural teams and singing drinking songs (a practice of his native Finland that he is promoting with varied success in Munich, Germany where he’s currently living).

John has worked in systems operations for over ten years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster.com and Flickr.com, where he currently manages the Operations Engineering group.

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Jeff Rothschild is Vice President of Technology at Facebook, where he focuses on scalability and performance. Prior to Facebook, Jeff focused on storage management and Internet services as an investor and entrepreneur. He previously co-founded Veritas Software, where he was responsible for product strategy and architecture. Jeff also co-founded Mpath Interactive/Hearme, the Internet multiplayer games and voice chat service, where he served as Vice President of Engineering. He is also a consulting partner with Accel Partners and during his tenure has worked with Walmart.com, Rhapsody Networks and Mendocino Software. Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and master’s degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University.

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Monty Taylor is a Senior Consultant for MySQL. Don’t get excited, he’s not ‘that’ Monty. Monty specializes in HA solutions both with and without MySQL Cluster. He’s also the author of the NDB/Connectors for using non-C++ languages with the NDB API. When he’s not doing that, he’s an avid Python Hacker and is one of the most annoying advocates of Debian and Ubuntu you’re likely to meet. Oddly enough, he also like C# programming. (Go figure)

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Domas Mituzas is Wikipedia performance engineer/developer and database administrator, as well as full-time support engineer at MySQL. He is also member of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

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Paul has been a sysadmin, DBA or something in between for 25 years, if you count college jobs. In this century, he’s helped build the infrastructure for many startups , notably PayPal and Youtube, as a database architecture and scalability expert. Currently Paul is the manager of the architecture, database, sysadmin and data warehousing groups at YouTube.

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Farhan “Frank” Mashraqi, Fotolog’s Director of Database Infrastructure, is responsible for all aspects of MySQL database administration and data architecture including disaster recovery, performance tuning, database scalability, data mining and schema optimization. Frank has helped design a database architecture to meet Fotolog’s explosive traffic growth. This enabled Fotolog to grow from five million members to 11 million members today, with the same number of database servers. Today Fotolog is a top 20 destination (traffic-wise) on the Internet according to Alexa.

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