Grant McAlister
Senior Prinicipal Engineer, Amazon.com

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Grant McAlister is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon.com where he works on RDS – Amazon’s Relational Database Service. For the past 10 years Grant has been responsible for the performance, scalability and availability of Amazon’s databases. Before joining Amazon.com in 1999, Grant worked as an Independent Database Consultant and as a Senior Principle Consultant for Oracle Corporation. A 1991 graduate of the University of Alberta, Grant has been working with various database systems for the past 18 years.

Sessions

10:50am Wednesday, 04/13/2011
Replication for Availability & Durability with MySQL and Amazon RDS
Products and Services
 Location: Ballroom G
Grant McAlister (Amazon.com)
Whether running with commodity servers on premise or in the cloud, there are many failure scenarios to protect your database against. In this session we will walk through the different types of replication possible with both self-managed MySQL deployments and managed Amazon Relational Database Service cloud deployments, understanding how they can help improve your availability and durability. Read more.
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  • Rackspace Hosting
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SkySQL
  • Xeround

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