Fri, 30 Jan 2009
MySQL Uni - Scalability Challenges in an InnoDB-based Replication Environment
I recently 'attended' my first MySQL University presentation - Scalability Challenges in an InnoDB-based Replication Environment.
The service itself is great, you sign up, log in and then
watch the speaker present in one window while listening to him speak and
reading the slides (in the main part of the screen). Everything you'd expect
really.
The subject wasn't anymore exciting than you'd guess (but what do you expect with that title?) but the speaker knew his stuff and a couple of the Solaris commands shown will be useful to me in the future. Most valuable for me from the time invested in watching is that between this and the Jan 09 LOSUG I'm being pushed to invest some time in OpenSolaris and potentially deploy an instance or two of it in our staging environment for performance and debugging reasons. While Linux is pushing the boundaries in many ways Solaris is still ahead when it comes to working out the why, when and what.
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Posted: 2009/01/30 21:19 | /presentations | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
LOSUG - Jan 09 Wrap Up
I'm going to try and get to more LOSUG meetings this year and the January presentation by MC
Brown has done nothing to put me off. Although some of the audience tried
their best...
First up - the good. The actual presentation, MySQL/DTrace and Memcached, was very well done. The speaker was funny, well rehearsed and knew his material extremely well. The MySQL DTrace probes are made to be used in demos and are very enticing.
Now for the bad. The talks technical coverage was quite light on the MySQL/DTrace part and the memcache section was painful. Big parts of the audience just didn't seem to get the idea. The speaker had to constantly backtrack to keep more than a handful of us with him. I had to resist the urge to join in and ask questions like 'how do you do joins?' just to see how big the vein on his forehead would get.
Still, the speaker must have been good as I've already played with the OpenSolaris Live CD they gave away. I'm looking forward to next month.
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Posted: 2009/01/30 21:17 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Tinselworm DVD (Bill Bailey) - Short Review
It took me a while to warm to Bill Bailey as a comedian. His slower,
more laid back humour is a change in pace from what I normally like but
Tinselworm, like all his live shows, is an excellent mix of music and
mirth. If you like Bill Bailey then it's another must have, if you've never
watched him then go for a little trawl through youtube (start with this) and if you don't
like him then you're just weird.
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Posted: 2009/01/30 21:03 | /movies | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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