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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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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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In this session we will show how the cloud capabilities that many vendors are now offering make it possible for a single developer to build solutions that even large companies find difficult or impossible to do.
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Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server focused on modularity, improved performance, and community development. This session will give an overview of the current state of Drizzle, how to install it, and the state of the current tools and language APIs available. The session will also show how to get started with management, writing simple applications, and porting existing applications.
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Speed up your own migration from Oracle to MySQL by learning from NPR.org’s success. See how MySQL might allow you to improve your database architecture. Learn some specific differences in SQL to be aware of between Oracle and MySQL. A few free tools we found helpful will be demoed. Finally some test cases we found revealed the trickiest issues will be discussed.
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Flash storage has gone from an experimental buzzword to a major new storage technology so fast that it is hard to understand what is on the market. This is a comprehensive comparison of what's available today.
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Memcache is one of the tools of scaling read heavy architectures, but keeping it in sync with MySQL can be a challenge: scalability vs. consistency ? Do it in the app or the database ? Storage engines or Triggers + UDF ? Let's rethink it and make it scalable and consistent: let's replicate from MySQL to memcache.
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Many LAMP websites use Memcached to offload dynamic data from their MySQL database to speed up performance. Answers.com, however, did not want to be in the business of managing a growing Memcached layer. In this case study, Answers.com discusses its choices when it came to scaling out with Memcached and the lessons learned.
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