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9:00am Monday, 04/11/2011
Linux and H/W optimizations for MySQL
Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom D
Tags: lamp, benchmarking, performance_tuning
Yoshinori Matsunobu (DeNA)
Average rating: ****.
(4.60, 15 ratings)
Choosing right Hardware components, configuring them properly, and optimizing Linux settings are very important for MySQL and other database server deployments. But they are frequently overlooked. Learning best practices will certainly improve performance and stability. Do you want to learn these best practices? This three-hour tutorial is for you. Read more.
10:50am Tuesday, 04/12/2011
MySQL Replication Update
Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: replication
Lars Thalmann (Oracle), Alex Roedling (Oracle)
Average rating: ****.
(4.60, 5 ratings)
The developers behind MySQL Replication describe the new features. After a quick review of what MySQL 5.5 brings, focus turns to the features that are coming after MySQL 5.5. Read more.
11:55am Tuesday, 04/12/2011
The Secret Sauce of Sharding
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom E
Tags: sharding, replication, facebook
Ryan Thiessen (Facebook)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 9 ratings)
Getting sharding right is crucial for achieving high scale with MySQL on commodity hardware like we do at Facebook. We will overview sharding best practices, and show some examples of both successful and unsuccessful methods at sharding MySQL. Read more.
2:00pm Tuesday, 04/12/2011
Maximum Availability for MySQL/InnoDB with Synchronous Replication, Automated Failover, Full Data Consistency, Simplified Management, and Industry-Leading Performance
Products and Services
 Location: Ballroom H
John Busch (Schooner Information Technology)
Average rating: **...
(2.25, 4 ratings)
We present innovative technology developed to achieve industry-leading availability coupled with industry-leading performance for MySQL/InnoDB. Downtime is reduced by over 90% with tightly integrated, fully synchronous replication. Highly-optimized thread, lock, DRAM, and flash algorithms maximize performance.We present the technology, demonstrate management simplicity, and show benchmark results. Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/12/2011
Automated, Non-Stop MySQL Operations and Failover
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out, Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: dba, scale_out
Yoshinori Matsunobu (DeNA)
Average rating: ***..
(3.57, 7 ratings)
In this session, I will talk about tough DBA tasks - how to automate failover under non-trivial crash situations (i.e. promoting one of slaves to new master), and about how to eliminate downtime for difficult maintenance tasks (i.e sharding). If you have spent too much time for these tasks, this session will help your DBA life easier. Read more.
4:25pm Tuesday, 04/12/2011
MySQL and Linux Tuning - Better Together
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom C
Tags: linux, performance_tuning
Steve Francis (LogicMonitor)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 6 ratings)
This talk will cover some of the less common linux tuning options, and how they can benefit MySQL performance, and benchmark results showing real impacts (or lack thereof) of tuning. Read more.
5:15pm Tuesday, 04/12/2011
Securich
Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom C
Tags: mysql, security
Darren Cassar (MySQLPreacher)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Security is often considered a waste of time given its tedious, painful and underestimated. This is where securich comes to the rescue helping you control users, privileges and enforce good passwords. User cloning, renaming, password complexity and much much more. Read more.
10:50am Wednesday, 04/13/2011
MySQL State of the Art at Facebook
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom C
Harrison Fisk (Facebook), Domas Mituzas (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 15 ratings)
Running MySQL at a scale of Facebook leads to many unique problems. We will discuss some of the performance problems seen in production systems and the tools and techniques involved in solutions. Read more.
2:00pm Wednesday, 04/13/2011
openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use
Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom C
Tags: dba, security
Shlomi Noach (openark.org)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
openark-kit is a tool set of scripts which fills in some gaps in daily MySQL maintenance work. Some scripts make for automation of routine work; others introduce new functionality to the MySQL server. This session introduces concepts and usage of the openark-kit. Read more.
3:05pm Wednesday, 04/13/2011
Gizzard: A Pragmatic Distributed Storage Framework
Architecture and Technology, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom F
Tags: mysql, nosql, twitter, cluster
Matt Freels (Twitter)
Average rating: *....
(1.67, 3 ratings)
At Twitter, we have gone through many iterations of storage systems as we have coped with tremendous growth. We have been able to solve many general distributed storage problems in a framework named Gizzard. This has allowed us to quickly and safely develop specialized components for the parts of Twitter that can no longer handle the scale at which they are required to operate. Read more.
4:25pm Wednesday, 04/13/2011
Partitioning Saves Load Data
Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Cloud Computing
 Location: Ballroom E
Tags: analytics, case_study, partitioning, facebook
Kevin Knapp (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
A real-world example of how re-sharding and table partitioning cut load data times in Facebook's analytics infrastructure from greater than 24 hours to less than 5 minutes. Read more.
9:00am Thursday, 04/14/2011
Building on Strengths, Learning from Differences
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Please note: This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Baron Schwartz (VividCortex Inc)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 13 ratings)
The last few years have brought technological and market shifts that have disrupted open-source databases. These include cloud computing, solid-state storage, non-SQL databases, and MySQL's acquisition. In this keynote presentation, Baron Schwartz will discuss the new reality that faces open-source database users and developers. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/14/2011
Error Detection and Correction with MySQL Replication
Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom A
Tags: replication, facebook
Daniel Peek (Facebook)
Average rating: ****.
(4.20, 5 ratings)
MySQL replication has been a critical part of scaling Facebook's storage infrastructure.  However, it brings with it the fear of divergent replicas.  This session discusses a new tool that detects divergences, identifies inconsistent data, and helps repairs defects.   Read more.
2:50pm Thursday, 04/14/2011
Making MySQL Better for the Data Center
Replication and Scale-Out, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: mysql, data_centers, case_study, facebook
Mark Callaghan (Facebook), Ryan Mack (Facebook), Vamsi Ponnekanti (Facebook)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 3 ratings)
The Facebook database engineering team works with the community and on its own to make MySQL better for data center deployments. This work is visible in the Facebook patch, bugs fixed in official MySQL and features sponsored in other distributions. We will describe work to support a large number of large databases. We focus on backup, replication and quality of service. Read more.
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Clustrix
  • Continuent
  • Facebook
  • HTI Consultoria e Tecnologia
  • Monty Program
  • Percona
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SkySQL
  • Xeround

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