A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-09-21 through 2012-05-11:

• Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?
• Performance Testing - Load Balancer SSL Stress Testing
  This is a great simple test. Thanks, Corey!
• Mosh: the mobile shell
• Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce
• Lab Overview
  This guy is serious about his lab!

This Thursday, we're continuing our series of sessions on MySQL performance measuring and improvements with Richard Smith's presentation titled Scalability by Design - Coding for Systems With Large CPU Counts. Richard works in the Performance and Applications Engineering department at Sun Microsystems, so again, expect to get some deep insights into the inner workings of the MySQL Server.

Richard is based in Australia, so note that this session will take place in the morning (Europe) or evening (APAC), respectively.

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