I arrived late for this talk yesterday. Don't know what was said before I arrived.Was working on my presentation, putting on a few finishing touches, during the BoF session.Asked about WorkLog visibility.Asked about reviewer availability.Take away quotations:"Contributions will be reviewed in reverse order of size (complexity).""Contributions will be tracked in bugdb.""WorkLog will be replaced,

Today Allan and I presented "Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS" talk at MySQL Conference 2009. You can get the slides here (I have uploaded it to the conference website also)

Like I said during the talk, I will blog about ZFS comparisons with EXT3 when I have a chance to do the tests. Thanks for attending!

John Powell from eMapSite stopped by at the Whisper Suite in MySQL Users Conference earlier today to talk about his GlassFish issue. The possible workaround was suggested and then the discussion became interesting on how GlassFish is used for offshore monitoring of windfarms and process weather forecasting data. Hear all about it and watch a flashy demo of their product in this video:

NetBeans, GlassFish, and MySQL is their development stack with a "very positive experience"!

Stay tuned for the stories entry.

And the complete picture album is available at:
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Files used in conference presentation here: UC2009 presentationI think todays presentation for Perl Stored Procedures for MySQL was quite successful. The audience was quite engaged and asked questions throughout (yes, I invited questions through the talk). I made sure to mention Eric Herman's Java plugin because even though he didn't get time to submit a talk, the work is noteworthy. Sometimes I

Today at MySQL Conference & Expro 2009, I did a presentation introducing / explaining Q4M. Thank you to people who came to listen.

The presentation slides I used can be found on slideshare (slideshare).

Today’s Great Open Cloud Shootout was great fun — at least for me! I had the pleasure to tease these distinguished gentlemen with cloudy questions:

• Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, Sun Microsystems
• Monty Taylor, MySQL Drizzle Geek, Sun Microsystems
• Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist
• Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
• Thorsten von Eicken, CTO, RightScale
• Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook
• Mike Culver, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

I tried to provoke the panelists with questions around some areas I had thought out:

• So, what is a cloud anyway?
• Who is the cloud for?
• Why use the cloud?
• Cloud adoption barriers
• Are there cloud standards?
• Cloud Business Opportunities
• Cloud Competition
• Databases & Clouds

Well I just finished my SSD session.  I was concerned by the amount of slides I had so I  kept trimming them back.  What happened?  I finished early.  Why?  The problem with storage is it’s not really that sexy.  I mean nobody ( sane anyways ) drools over drive specs ( I do consider myself insane by the way , and do drool over some drives ).   CPU’s are sexy…  memory…  sexy …  graphics cards sexy…  drives…  are not.  We only had a small crowd turn out (50-60 people maybe), but they were vocal and interactive.  I got some great feedback from others who love IO performance as much as me.   In fact one antendee stopped me in the hall and thanked me , telling me I helped him make up his mind to purcahse some SSD drives,  which made it worthwhile.

We did it!

Here is the presentation (PDF):

Testing The Cluster With Anste View more presentations from Jorge Bernal.

And some interesting links:

• ANSTE
• ANSTE MySQL scripts

I sat down about 20 minutes ago to write a blog post that included a link to the slides of my EMT presentation. It turned into a long post about the presentation, how I feel EMT was received and my feelings on presentations in general. Here is the short post and the link to the slides.

The MySQL conference always inspires me to write so expect a longer post in a few days.

The presentation file for the Dojo toolkit presentation at the Users Conference is now available.

You can find it on the conference session page.

I’ll be uploading the example scripts that work to produce the examples I gave once I’m back in the office after the conference.