Adam Donnison

Adam Donnison
MySQL.com Web Developer, Sun Microsystems

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Adam is currently a member of the team responsible for the MySQL.com websites. He was primarily responsible for the design of the current web infrastructure, which now achieves an enviable uptime, showing that it can be done with open source and commodity hardware.

In previous incarnations Adam has been an analyst programmer, consultant, systems engineer, trainer and courseware developer.

Sessions

10:50am Wednesday, 04/22/2009
Beginner's Guide to Website Performance with MySQL and memcached
Architecture and Technology, LAMP, PHP and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom E
Adam Donnison (Sun Microsystems)
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There is a lot of buzz about Memcached and MySQL 5.1 and what it can do for your website. But how exactly do you go about setting it all up and write your code to make use of memcached? In this session, Adam Donnison will take you step by step through implementing memcached using real world examples in PHP from the MySQL.com website infrastructure. Read more.
11:55am Thursday, 04/23/2009
How MySQL.com Improved Their Database Performance with Query
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom H
Adam Donnison (Sun Microsystems)
In a classic case of "eat your own dogfood", MySQL.com is a key player in the beta testing of MySQL software, including Query Analyzer. In this presentation MySQL.com web developer Adam Donnison will take you through how he used Quan to improve database performance on the MySQl.com website by orders of magnitude, and why Quan was needed. Read more.

Co-presented By:

O'Reilly Media MySQL/Sun Microsystems
  • Kickfire
  • Virident
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Intel
  • Advanced Micro Devices
  • BIRT Exchange by Actuate
  • Calpont
  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
  • Facebook
  • HiT Software, Inc.
  • IBM
  • iDashboards
  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SQLstream
  • Ticketmaster
  • Zmanda, Inc.
  • Linux Journal

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