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1:30pm Monday, 04/12/2010
Developing Replication Plugins for Drizzle
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Replication and Scale-Out, Storage Engine Development and Optimization, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom F
Jay Pipes (Rackspace Cloud), Padraig O'Sullivan (Akiban Technologies Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
The Drizzle Project is a fork of the MySQL 6.0 server. One of the many goals of Drizzle is to enable a large plugin ecosystem by improving, simplifying, and modernizing the application programming interfaces between the kernel and the modules providing services for Drizzle. This tutorial serves to showcase the new APIs for Drizzle's replication through a series of in-depth examples. Read more.
10:50am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Using Drizzle
LAMP, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom A
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Monty Taylor (HP)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
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. Read more.
11:55am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Monitoring Drizzle or MySQL With DTrace and SystemTap
General, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom A
Padraig O'Sullivan (Akiban Technologies Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 5 ratings)
Drizzle and MySQL both have a number of static DTrace probes embedded within them which allows observability tools to gain deep insight into what the server is doing. In this session, an overview of these static probes will be given and examples of utilizing these probes will be shown using both DTrace on Solaris and SystemTap on Linux. Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Connecting MySQL and Python
Architecture and Technology, LAMP, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom A
Geert Vanderkelen (Sun Microsystems)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 2 ratings)
This talk will give an overview of how to connect to MySQL and which drivers are available today under Python v2.x, and tomorrow's Python v3.x. We'll dive into MySQLdb, its strong history, its present. We'll go over OurSQL and various other community projects, as well as Sun Microsystems' MySQL Connector/Python (mainted by the speaker). Read more.
2:00pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning Best Practices
General, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom D
Johan Andersson (SUN MySQL), Jimmy Guerrero (Oracle-MySQL)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 4 ratings)
Are you experiencing current performance bottlenecks in your high availability applications ? Are you designing a new mission-critical application and want to know how best to structure your schema and index strategy for optimal performance? Interested in how to transform your SQL into faster, more efficient queries? Read more.
3:05pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
MySQL Cluster and Pushdown-joins (In Pursuit of the Holy Grail)
MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom B
Jonas Oreland (Sun Microsystems)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Learn everything about the latest and greatest new feature for MySQL Cluster, pushdown-joins. How it's implemented in the data nodes, how the mysqld integration is done, what the next steps will be and the performance increases that we measured. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Cloud Vapour: a memcached Interface to NDB
Cloud Computing, MySQL Cluster and High Availability
 Location: Ballroom B
Stewart Smith (Percona)
Vapour is a server that speaks the memcached protocol and uses MySQL Cluster (NDB) as the storage backend. Read more.
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