Giuseppe Maxia and I are in the exact middle of our leg of the MySQL Campus Tour. Yesterday's session is was recorded -- A PDF of the slides can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Tour.pdf (21 Mb).
The video is below:
Apr
08
2009
Mar
26
2009
At the March Boston MySQL User Group meeting, Jacob Nikom of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory presented "Optimizing Concurrent Storage and Retrieval Operations for Real-Time Surveillance Applications." In the middle of the talk, Jacob said he sometimes calls what he did in this application as "real-time data warehousing", which was so accurate I decided to give that title to this blog post.
The slides can be downloaded in PDF format (1.3 Mb) at http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/Concurrent_database_performance_02.pdf. The 54 minute video can be downloaded (644Mb) at http://technocation.org/node/693/download or streamed directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/693/play.
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Feb
04
2009
At the January 2009 Boston User Group I presented a session on the new partitioning feature in MySQL 5.1. I go through how to define partitions, how partitioning makes queries faster, the different types of partitioning and when to use each type, and the restrictions and limitations of partitioning.
The sildes are available at http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/2009_01_Partitioning.pdf. The 380.6 Mb .mov movie (1 hr 16 min) can be played directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/671/play or downloaded at http://technocation.org/node/671/download.
Dec
27
2008
What's new, in a nutshell: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html.
Release notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html (In the video, it's the page entitled "Changes in release 5.1.x").
And yes, very early on (at about 2 minutes in) I talk about my take on Monty's controversial post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html
Nov
15
2008
At LISA 2008, I gave a presentation entitled "How to Stop Hating MySQL: Fixing Common Mistakes and Myths".
The presentation slides can be downloaded as a PDF at:
http://technocation.org/files/doc/stophatingmysql.pdf
View the video online at http://technocation.org/node/646/play or download the 202.5 MB Flash video file (.flv) directly at http://technocation.org/node/646/download.
Here are some notes and links I referred to:
Oct
16
2008
Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases.
The presentation begins with:
"There is no way I'm going to tell you exactly where the future
of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever
even begin a discussion..."
and ends with Aker saying,
"What the hell does that mean?"
My summary: open source databases are already ubiquitous, we need to make them better/faster/consume fewer resources.
Brian's summary: What part of my keynote surprised people? How ubiquitous bot nets are, and how they act as a big decentralized data store.
Sep
12
2008
This Monday, September 8th, the Boston MySQL User Group broke our 2-month summer hiatus with a presentation on MySQL Views.
The slides can be downloaded from http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/2008_09_Views.pdf -- 89 kB, .pdf format.
The 199 Mb .flv file can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/node/621/download or played directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/621/play.
The presentation covers:
Aug
25
2008
A panel consisting of Brian Aker of MySQL, Rob Lanphier of Linden Lab, Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk, and Theodore Ts'o of the Linux Foundation gives some answers to the question, "Does Open Source Need to Be Organic?" This topic stemmed from a few posts by Ts'o a few months before OSCon.
From the official conference description:
there’s much more to a software project than just the license. Are software projects dominated by a single company still open source? Does a project need to be 'organic' to be truly open source? What does "organic" even mean in this context? Join us as we discuss these topics and more.
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Aug
25
2008
"The State of" Lightning talks, moderated by Josh Berkus, is
always a great highlight.
OSCon 2008's speakers and projects included:
- Alan Kasindorf: Memcached
- Glynn Foster: OpenSolaris
- OSI: Danese Cooper
- MySQL: Monty Widenius
- PostgreSQL: Bruce Momjian
- GNOME: Dave Neary
- Gentoo: Donnie Berkholz
- OpenOffice.org: Louis Suarez-Potts
- Jabber: Peter Saint-Andre
- Mozdev: Brian King
- OpenID: Scott Kveton
- Open Scrum: James Dixon
- Talking Book Project: Cliff Schmidt
Aug
25
2008
A panel consisting of Brian Aker of MySQL, Rob Lanphier of Linden Lab, Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk, and Theodore Ts'o of the Linux Foundation gives some answers to the question, "Does Open Source Need to Be Organic?" This topic stemmed from a few posts by Ts'o a few months before OSCon.
From the official conference description:
there?s much more to a software project than just the license. Are software projects dominated by a single company still open source? Does a project need to be 'organic' to be truly open source? What does "organic" even mean in this context? Join us as we discuss these topics and more.
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