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8:30am Monday, 04/12/2010
SOLD OUT
Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Security and Database Administration, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom G
Baron Schwartz (Percona Inc.), Morgan Tocker (Percona, Inc.)
This tutorial focuses on the diagnostic tools you can turn to when confronted with an unexplained performance problem. Tools explained include iostat, vmstat, and mk-query-digest. The emphasis is on practical usage under pressure, and less on performance theory. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
State of the Dolphin
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Edward Screven (Oracle Corporation)
Join Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect and leader of the MySQL business, as he discusses the current and future state of MySQL, now part of the Oracle family of products. The presentation also covers Oracle’s investment in MySQL technology and community; and the role that open source in general is playing within heterogeneous customer environments around the world. Read more.
9:15am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
O'Reilly Radar
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Tim returns to share insights into the world of emerging technology, presenting his take on what matters most-and what will be most disruptive-to the tech community. Read more.
10:00am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
MySQL at Facebook
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
Many things happen when MySQL is part of the core technology used to scale a rapidly growing social networking service. Mark will share stories and details about the MySQL deployment at Facebook. Read more.
11:55am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Performance Schema
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom F
Peter Gulutzan (MySQL AB)
Performance Schema is a major new MySQL Server feature which shows where we're going with monitoring and performance measurement. Read more.
2:00pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
New Replication Features
Architecture and Technology, General, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom A
Mats Kindahl (Oracle), Lars Thalmann (Oracle)
In this talk, the developers behind MySQL Replication walk through some of the new Replication features of MySQL 5.5 Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Introduction to InnoDB Monitoring System and Resource & Performance Tuning
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom B
Jimmy Yang (Oracle Corporation)
At this session, we will talk about current interfaces of the InnoDB monitoring system, including server status variables, information schema table, as well as table and space monitor. We will also discuss how to utilize these information to better understand the system running state. Read more.
4:25pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Scalability and Reliability Features of MySQL Connector/J
General, Java, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom B
Mark Matthews (Oracle), Todd Farmer (Oracle Corporation)
Learn about the features built into MySQL Connector/J targeted at scalability and reliability. The session will cover fault tolerant load balancing, replication-aware load balancing with slave fail-over, custom exception handling and some creative use of statement interceptors mixed with the built-in load balancer to implement sharding. Read more.
5:15pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Linux Performance Tuning and Stabilization Tips
LAMP, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom B
Yoshinori Matsunobu (DeNA)
Many people know Linux terminologies such as ext3, tmpfs, cfq io scheduler, OOM killer, etc. But many times it is not appropriately configured. In this session, the speaker will show Linux performance tuning and stabilization practices for MySQL, such as how to avoid OOM Killer, performance difference between I/O schedulers, tuning Linux kernel parameters, profiling with SystemTap, etc. Read more.
6:00pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Expo Hall Reception
Location: Exhibit Hall A
Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception. Read more.
9:00pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
MySQL Conference & Expo Tweetup
Location: Lobby Bar
Join fellow MySQL Conference & Expo participants at this fun and exciting event. Come together, meet each other face to face, and discuss things in real time over a drink at the bar for the first MySQL CE Tweetup. Read more.
8:30am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
State of Drizzle
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Brian Aker (Data Differential)
What's the forecast for Drizzle, a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications? Brian provides an overview of the Drizzle project's current state as well as what's ahead. Read more.
9:15am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
State of MariaDB
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Michael Widenius (Monty Program Ab)
Monty, the co-founder of MySQL and now project lead of MariaDB, discusses what MariaDB is all about. He'll also present an overview of the future of this community developed branch of the MySQL database. Read more.
10:00am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Sheeri Cabral knows the MySQL Community. Working for the Pythian Group, she has tapped her co-workers' knowledge about the Oracle Community. In this brief community keynote, Sheeri maps out the differences between the communities and what we can expect next now that MySQL is "under new management". Read more.
10:50am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Partitioning Under the Hood in MySQL 5.5
Architecture and Technology, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom B
Mattias Jonsson (Sun Microsystems), Mikael Ronstrom (MySQL)
Meet the developers behind the partitioning feature in MySQL and take your chance to influence the future development! Get a detailed view of how the partitioning works inside the MySQL server, including the new features in 5.5 (COLUMS partitioning type, truncate partition, MyISAM key cache per partition, etc). And what is in development right now. Read more.
2:00pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Database Operations at Scale
Products and Services
 Location: Ballroom H
Santosh Janardhan (Facebook), Mark Konetchy (Facebook), Ryan Thiessen (Facebook)
Database operations gets interesting when it involves several thousand databases, a high-profile site and you have a small core team of DBAs. Among other things, we will give a high-level overview of Facebook database architecture, Backup (and recovery) strategy and the mysql upgrade process. Read more.
3:05pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Boosting Database Performance with Gearman
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
Many people view topics like Map/Reduce and queue systems as advanced concepts that require in-depth knowledge and time consuming software setup. Gearman is changing all that by making this barrier to entry as low as possible with an open source, distributed job queuing system. This session looks at advanced use cases that demonstrate the power and flexibility of distributed architectures. Read more.
4:25pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization - Part 1
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom E
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
This presentation will teach you the InnoDB internals you need to know for performance optimization and operational tasks. You'll learn topics such as how InnoDB allocates space on the filesystem and in memory, how InnoDB recovery works, and how MVCC and locking work. Read more.
5:15pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization - Part 2
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom E
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
This presentation will teach you the InnoDB internals you need to know for performance optimization and operational tasks. You'll learn topics such as how InnoDB allocates space on the filesystem and in memory, how InnoDB recovery works, and how MVCC and locking work. Read more.
8:30am Thursday, 04/15/2010
State of the MySQL Community
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Kaj Arnö (SkySQL Ab)
In a complement to Edward Screven's opening keynote, Kaj will interpret the state of the MySQL community and the happenings of the MySQL Conference in a language familiar to those whose business has grown up with MySQL. What has changed already, what will change soon, and what won't change with Oracle as the steward of MySQL? Read more.
9:15am Thursday, 04/15/2010
The Engines Of Community
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
In this brand new talk, Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manger, author of the critically acclaimed The Art Of Community by O'Reilly and founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit, talks about the evolution of community and how we can identify the engines of community, helping us to unite a global collection of volunteers to solve interesting and worthwhile problems. Read more.
10:00am Thursday, 04/15/2010
Best of Ignite MySQL
Location: Ballroom EFGH
Join us as we present the best of Wednesday night's Ignite MySQL presentations. Read more.
10:50am Thursday, 04/15/2010
Instrumenting your Application for MySQL and Memcached
LAMP, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, PHP and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom D
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
The best way to understand your application's performance is to have good performance instrumentation in your application. This session will teach you how and where to instrument your application, and how to analyze the results. Read more.
11:55am Thursday, 04/15/2010
MySQL Architecture Design Patterns for Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom G
Brian Miezejewski (MySQL), Alexander Rubin (MySQL)
MySQL consultants have collected a toolset of MySQL architecture design patterns that are proven solutions for most MySQL system requirements. Each pattern has different strengths or weaknesses based on the application it may be used with. Learn the common patterns and which will work best for your applications and requirements. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Find Query Problems Proactively With Query Reviews
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom A
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Query reviews are a great way to find potentially slow queries before they become a problem. A query review is like a code review, except instead of reviewing code, queries are reviewed. This presentation will show you how to use the Maatkit tool mk-query-digest to create a digest of queries. This digest can be a one-off report, or it can be saved to a database table. Read more.
2:50pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Practical Partitioning With MySQL
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom H
Brian Miezejewski (MySQL)
There are many examples and posts on how to use partitioning in MySQL, but little information on when to use it and how to apply it to typical business problems. This talk focusses on when to use partitioning, what type to use, and what are the best practices in using the different types of MySQL partitioning. Read more.
3:50pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
RethinkDB: Why Start a New Database Company in 2010
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Slava Akhmechet (RethinkDB), Michael Glukhovsky (RethinkDB)
Why start a new database company? What is RethinkDB all about? What will database technology look like twenty years from now? In this talk we will explore these questions, present some of the exciting technology we've been developing at RethinkDB, and show how it fits into our larger vision of what database systems may look like in the future Read more.
4:35pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Ice Cream Social Closing Reception
Location: Ballroom Foyer
Take the opportunity to network one last time at this closing event, enjoy ice cream and refreshments. Say thank you and exchange contact information until next year. Read more.
  • Oracle
  • Monty Program
  • Calpont
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Joyent
  • Kickfire
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Percona
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ)
  • Intel
  • Pentaho
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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