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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.
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Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication
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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.
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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.
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Join the MySQL and InnoDB Engineering teams as they describe the
low-level technical details behind the MySQL 5.5 performance and
scalability gains.
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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.
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The MySQL Server ships with a number of command-line administration tools. However, they only provide basic functionality and make it complicated or sometimes even impossible to accomplish common DBA tasks. In this session, Lenz will give an introduction to the most popular and commonly used Open Source tools that a DBA should be aware of and that make MySQL administration tasks a breeze.
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If you're using or planning to use an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library
for PHP, this talk is for you. We'll survey common ORMs available and see how to use them,
including relevant design patterns.
Additionally, we'll examine potential pitfalls that can lead to poor performance and other side
effects if you use ORMs in their default manner or without understanding what they do.
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SQL Injection is one of the most common and most serious threats to web application security. In this presentation, you'll see some myths busted, you'll get a better understanding of SQL Injection, and you'll learn simple and effective techniques to combat it.
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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.
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Achieving PCI compliance can be a difficult and expensive process. This session will begin by clarifying which requirements affect MySQL and then step through each requirement, providing common solutions to satisfy them.
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Users of Gearman know that it is a distributed client/server system that
allows great flexibility to developers and DBAs.
Advanced users of this tool have come up with amazing examples of cunning hacks that will possibly help you in your daily tasks immediately or get you started in your path of creating your own hacks.
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