Mats Kindahl

Mats Kindahl
Lead Software Developer, Oracle

Website | @mkindahl

Mats Kindahl is lead software developer in the MySQL replication team. He is the main architect and implementor of row-based replication, but has also dabbled in other parts such as the unit testing framework used by MySQL.

In the time before starting at MySQL, he has worked with research in formal methods, automated program analysis, distributed systems, and as implementor of C and C++ compilers.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 04/20/2009
Replication Tutorial
Replication and Scale-Out, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom D
Mats Kindahl (Oracle), Lars Thalmann (Oracle)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
How do you set up replication? What can you do with replication? If these are the kinds of questions you ask yourself, then you need to go to this replication tutorial. You will hear the replication developers explain the architecture and concepts behind replication, and learn how to configure and use replication for managing backups, handle high-availability, and performing scale-out. Read more.
10:50am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
New Replication Features
Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom B
Lars Thalmann (Oracle), Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 9 ratings)
The MySQL Replication developers walk through some of the new Replication features of MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 6.0, such as row-based replication, heart-beating and semi-synchronous replication. Read more.
10:50am Wednesday, 04/22/2009
Build Your Own MySQL Time Machine
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out, Security and Database Administration, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom B
Chuck Bell (Oracle), Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Do you like to tinker? Would you like to see how MySQL? If you’d like to get your hands dirty (or watch others work their developer magic), stop by this session and learn how to take a simple desktop system running MySQL into a fully functional time based backup system that you can connect to any server and get up to the minute recovery capability. Read more.
11:55am Wednesday, 04/22/2009
The Future of Replication
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom G
Mats Kindahl (Oracle), Lars Thalmann (Oracle), Jay Pipes (Rackspace Cloud), Mark Callaghan (Facebook), Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Do you have a hard time getting an overview of where replication is moving? Are you wondering what is going on in the community and inside the replication team? If these questions are on your mind, then you have to visit this panel discussion with some of the foremost developers and consultants on replication technology and hear what they have to say about the future of replication. Read more.
10:50am Thursday, 04/23/2009
Replication Tricks & Tips
Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom F
Mats Kindahl (Oracle), Lars Thalmann (Oracle)
Average rating: ***..
(3.40, 5 ratings)
See the replication developers give you a fast-paced session of some of the more interesting, useful, and odd ticks available for the intermediate to advanced replication user. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/23/2009
Backup and Replication Integration Techniques
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out, Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom F
Chuck Bell (Oracle), Lars Thalmann (Oracle), Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Do you use replication? Would you like to improve your data protection and recovery capabilities? If you do, chances are you would also like to improve your ability to recover from failures faster. In this session, we will show you how you can use backup to enhance your replication capabilities. Read more.

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