Yay, coming to Santa Clara again (4th conference in a row!:). I can’t imagine my year without MySQL Conference trip anymore. To get a free ticket I’ll present on two topics, MySQL Security (lately I have related role, and have prepared bunch of information already) and deep-inspecting MySQL with DTrace (a voodoo session for all happy Solaris and MacOSX users :). See you there?
Posts Tagged ‘conference’
Packing for MySQL Conference 2009
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Talks
Monday, August 25th, 2008I’ve opened a talks page, which is supposed to list slides from my talks at various conferences (well, mysqlconf mostly :) – I had to miss few conferences simply because of time clashes already, so having these public may help someone, maybe. :)
Velocity: Clouds!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008This early morning I’ll start making a betting pool, if there will be a Velocity presentation that won’t mention ‘clouds’. While most of people enjoy the idea of clouds, thats actually where snow, hail, thunderstorms, and acid rain comes from. This industry needs better metaphors.
Update: Though I failed to mention a word cloud on my talk (I guess I was entirely alone in whole conference in that regard), it still made it to Slashdot.
Also, we already replaced ‘Wikimedia Grid’ with ‘Wikimedia Cloud’ on Ganglia.
Wikipedia at Velocity conference
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Next Monday I’ll be presenting (if jetlag doesn’t kill me) at Velocity 2008 – webops and performance conference. It won’t be my first time talking about Wikipedia infrastructure, but this time people will know the technology and scaling methods anyway.
As I see it, in such context Wikipedia is more interesting as a case of operations underdog – non-profit lean budgets, brave approaches in infrastructure, conservative feature development, and lots of cheating and cheap tricks (caching! caching! caching!).
Also, I’ll be able to share (making audience jealous) how it is great to be on non-profit ops team (and one of example perks – we can be cheap about getting conference passes too ;-)
The best part (for audience, not for me) – I will be forced to be honest. Nearly whole tech team will be at the event, and if I fail to attribute any developments, or start talking crap – not only they can throw rotten tomatoes, but also disable my login access and claim they never knew me, without me being able to fight back :) I didn’t publicly present in front of these guys since 2005 – will be tough.
Speaking at MySQL Conference again, twice
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Yay, coming this year to the MySQL conference again. This time with two different talks (second got approved just few days ago) on two distinct quite generic topics:
- Practical MySQL for web applications
- Practical character sets
The abstracts were submitted weeks apart, so the ‘practical’ being in both is something completely accidental :) Still, I’ll try to cover problems met and solutions used in various environments and practices – both as support engineer in MySQL, as well as engineer working on wikipedia bits.
Coming to US and talking about character sets should be interesting experience. Though most English-speaking people can stick to ASCII and be happy, current attempts to produce multilingual applications lead to various unexpected performance, security and usability problems.
And of course, web applications end up introducing quite new model of managing data environments, by introducing new set of rules, and throwing away traditional OLTP approaches. It is easy to slap another label on these, call it OLRP – on-line response processing. It needs preparing data for reads more than for writes (though balance has to be maintained). It needs digesting data for immediate responses. It needs lightweight (and lightning) accesses to do the minimum work. Thats where MySQL fits nicely, if used properly.