Mark Callaghan

Mark Callaghan
MTS, Facebook

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Mark lead the MySQL Engineering team at Google for 2.5 years. His current focus is on making MySQL perfect. He has more than 13 years of database internals experience at Informix, Oracle and now Google. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He maintains a large MySQL patch at code.google.com and a smaller patch at launchpad.net. His blog is at mysqlha.blogspot.com.

Sessions

9:15am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
This is Not a Web App: The Evolution of a MySQL Deployment at Google
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.58, 19 ratings)
The inside story of MySQL use at Google, and how this performant database is scaled. 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.
3:05pm Wednesday, 04/22/2009
MySQL Performance on EC2
Cloud Computing, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
 Location: Ballroom D
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Amazon EC2 is a new platform on which to run MySQL. This session evaluates the performance possible on the variety of hardware configurations available with EC2. Read more.

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  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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  • HiT Software, Inc.
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  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
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  • Zmanda, Inc.
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