Dan Marriott

Dan Marriott
Director - Production Operations, Answers.com

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Dan Marriott is Director of Ops at Answers.com – a top 20 US website. As a technologist with over 20 years of professional experience in both the private and public sectors, he now specializes in high scalability and performance, pushing MySQL database limits, internet infrastructure and data security.

Sessions

10:50am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Answers to the Scaling Challenge: A Case Study With Answers.com on Scaling With Memcached and MySQL
Products and Services
 Location: Ballroom H
Joaquin Ruiz (Gear6), Dan Marriott (Answers.com)
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. Read more.
5:15pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Panel: How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures
Architecture and Technology, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom D
Sumeet Bansal (Fusion-io), Ryan White (Cloudmark), Dan Marriott (Answers.com), Vadim Tkachenko (Percona Inc), Jeremy Zawodny (craigslist.org)
Average rating: ***..
(3.17, 6 ratings)
This panel discussion, moderated by Sumeet Bansal, principal solutions architect for Fusion-io, the solid-state storage provider, will make clear to audience members the benefits of solid-state technologies, both from a performance standpoint and in relation to TCO. Q&A with the panel to follow. Participants include panelists from Answers.com, Cloudmark, Percona and Craigslist.org. Read more.
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