I posted the slides to my talk on SlideShare.  This talk includes high level information about Shard-Query, why it is needed, and the kind of schema it works well with.
http://www.slideshare.net/MySQLGeek/introduction-to-shard-query-m

You can also find a more technical information about Shard-Query and the how it works here:

Divide and conquer in the cloud from Justin Swanhart

As mentioned here and after talking to a few people we have created a meetup page, http://www.meetup.com/Madrid-MySQL-users-group/ and proposed the first meeting on Thursday, 4th July. If you are interested and in the area come along and say hello. It should be interesting to see a few others who work in the field.  If you can let us know you are coming so we have an idea of how much interest there is.

Join 6100 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Lots and lots of web applications need to page through information. From customer records, to the albums in your itunes collection. So as web developers and architects, it’s important that we do all this efficiently. Start by looking at how you’re fetching information from your [...]

Timing is everything. I wrote about how MySQL man pages were silently relicensed away from the GPL. It was picked up by a lot of sites: Hacker News, Slashdot, LWN, and probably more. That led to a bug report in Debian (#712730) to complain that MySQL is no longer compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). That prompted Norvald Ryeng who’s active in Debian (thanks Oracle!) to file MySQL bug …

Tokutek is known for its full-featured fast-indexing technology. MongoDB is known for its great document-based data model and ease of use. TokuMX, version 1.0, combines the best of both worlds.

• So what, exactly, is TokuMX? The simplest (but incomplete) answer is that TokuMX is MongoDB with all its storage code replaced by Tokutek’s Fractal Tree indexes.
• How do Fractal Tree indexes improve MongoDB? The direct benefits include high-performance indexing, strong compression, and performance stability – in other words, the performance stays high, even when data is larger than RAM.
• Are there any features in TokuMX that MongoDB doesn’t have? Yes. We have added support for transactions to TokuMX, so that TokuMX is ACID compliant and has MVCC. We have also added support for clustering indexes, which dramatically accelerate many types of queries.
• …

Wow – blips like this are still causing firestorms? I remember the Debian/manpage storm: http://mcslp.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/mysql-documentation-and-debianubuntu/

Many application developers would know of New Relic. A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node.

With the release today (June 19, 2013) of the New Relic Platform, custom monitoring of data stores including MySQL are now possible. Try it now free. This link will provide you a free standard account (no cost, no billing details necessary), that enables you to perform application monitoring, server monitoring, MySQL instance monitoring and monitoring of many other products via many plugins.

Over the next few posts I will be discussing some of the design decisions I made for this MySQL plugin. New Relic has certain …

Hi Mike,

the MySQL Workbench 6.0 Beta 1 has been released and is available for download on http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Look on the Development Releases tab.

Thanks for participating in the Beta testing!

Mike