Frank Mashraqi

Frank Mashraqi

Real Gift Services

Frank Mashraqi is a renowned speaker and scalability advisor to several startups. He comes to Give Real with nearly a decade of scalability, engineering management and monetization experience. Prior to Give Real, Frank was Director of Business Operations and Technical Strategy for Fotolog where he played a pivotal role in helping Fotolog scale to become the 13th largest website on the Internet (Alexa: based on traffic) and the third most actively used social network in the world (ComScore). Frank holds a BBA in Accounting and a BS in Computer Information Systems.

Sessions

4:25pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Disaster is Inevitable—Are You Prepared?
Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom B
Frank Mashraqi (Real Gift Services)
What’s the worst disaster you expect to happen? What can you do to better prepare for the disaster? Join us in this heart-racing, real-life inspired presentation for answers to these questions and more. Read more.
9:15am Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Scaling MySQL - Up or Out?
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Kaj Arnö, John Allspaw (Flickr (Yahoo!)), Jeff Rothschild (Facebook.com), Monty Taylor (MySQL), Domas Mituzas (MySQL), Paul Tuckfield (YouTube), Frank Mashraqi (Real Gift Services)
This lively panel discussion keynote will address the challenges large, modern web properties face in scaling MySQL. Panelists from Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr pair up with MySQL engineers in discussing the current and future problem domain and possible solutions. Read more.
10:50am Thursday, 04/17/2008
Optimizing MySQL and InnoDB on Solaris 10 for World's Largest Photo Blogging Community
Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
 Location: Ballroom A
Frank Mashraqi (Real Gift Services)
In this presentation learn how MySQL, InnoDB, and Solaris helped Fotolog gain the top performance it desired as the world's largest photo blogging community through tuning and schema optimizations. Read more.
2:50pm Thursday, 04/17/2008
The Power of Lucene
Architecture and Technology, Java, Ruby and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom G
Frank Mashraqi (Real Gift Services)
Lucene is a high performance, scalable, full-text search engine library that allows you to add search to any application. This presentation shows you how you can use Lucene within your environment. Read more.
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