I have already blogged about this keynote at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/948/liveblogging-who-is-the-dick-on-my-site.
If you are interested in actually seeing the video, the 286 Mb .wmv file can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/videos/original/mysqlconf2008/2008_04_17_panelDick.wmv and played through your browser by clicking the “play” link at http://tinyurl.com/55c5ps. This is not to be missed!
I have already blogged about this keynote at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/948/liveblogging-who-is-the-dick-on-my-site.
If you are interested in actually seeing the video, the 286 Mb .wmv file can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/videos/original/mysqlconf2008/2008_04_17_panelDick.wmv and played through your browser by clicking the "play" link here. This is not to be missed!
Discussion on community builds, patches, adding features, etc
using GPL version of MySQL source code. It's also a public group,
and if you're interested in hacking MySQL source code, please
join.
oursql-sources
It's been mentioned before, but I'll mention it again. There's been
talk of a community conference, not to compete with but
augmenting the Sun/MySQL one. We're here to discuss such an
event, its potential, dates/location, and get it going! It's a
public group, please blog & tell others about it! Sheeri
suggested OurSQL, like her podcast. Created and managed by Arjen
Lentz
oursql-conferenceMySQL DBA & Programming Blog
by Mark Schoonover
Discussion on community builds, patches, adding features, etc
using GPL version of MySQL source code. It's also a public group,
and if you're interested in hacking MySQL source code, please
join.
oursql-sources
It's been mentioned before, but I'll mention it again. There's been
talk of a community conference, not to compete with but
augmenting the Sun/MySQL one. We're here to discuss such an
event, its potential, dates/location, and get it going! It's a
public group, please blog & tell others about it! Sheeri
suggested OurSQL, like her podcast. Created and managed by Arjen
Lentz
oursql-conferenceMySQL DBA & Programming Blog
by Mark Schoonover
besides a community ?
Some people think that apart from a community and users you also need an infrastructure to support these users.
Murray ignited the discussion by pointing us to the fact that PostgreSQL doesn't have a bugzilla to report an track issues.
Different projects have different approaches. Both the kernel, Drupal and MySQL have build their own infrastructure. Others choose Sourceforge for their projects.
What's your approach ?
Florian is replying to James on the subject of using DRBD for MySQL HA. A discussion started earlier by Eric Florian is refuting most of the arguments that James has against using MySQL and DRBD together.
I`m also saying NO to MySQL and DRBD in most of the cases.. but not for any of the reasons James mentions.
I must say upfront I love DRBD and I have been using it in production for a long time but not for MySQL HA.
The problem with using MySQL on DRBD is the same problem you have
when killing the power on a standalone MySQL machine and
rebooting that machine.
DRBD saves you the time of powering up your machine and OS. But
MySQL …
I was at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I
thought about what I saw over the weekend. There seemed to be two
Big Ideas at this conference:
1. That applications will move into the cloud/grid/utility, with
everybody from Sun, Amazon, and Google to traditional hosting
ISPs offering new clout/grid/utility computing solutions.
2. The big players are now moving away from software and software
as a service to Platform as a Service. Yahoo, Google,
Salesforce.com, Amazon, etc. are all opening up their APIs to
turn them into platforms where you can come in and build your own
applications on top of them.
What I Think (In Case You Cared...)
I don't think we'll ever move back to the days of dumb terminals
and centralized applications run by service bureaus.
Nevertheless, I was very excited by what I saw, because by making
available both the hardware infrastructure and their …
It is perhaps fitting that the last word on the recent MySQL licensing row should belong to Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. In a twitter Q&A with Web 2.0 Expo attendees, courtesy of Tim O’Reilly, he states that:
“we have no plans whatever of ‘hiding the ball,’ of keeping any technology from the community. Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community.
Everything.
No exception.”
Which would appear to be pretty conclusive, despite his additional claim that “leaders at Sun have the autonomy to do what they think is right to maximize their business value - so long as they remember their responsibility to the corporation and all of its communities (from shareholders to developers). Not just …
[Read more]My first day was over a month ago (depending on how you reckon it - I count by when I was "onboarded" in Burlington, MA in late March), but I am finally settled in enough to have a Sun blog. It's been quite a ride.
This could (and may) be the subject of many posts in this space, but I thought I would start this one with some observations of what it is like going from a smallish company (MySQL was ~60 when I started and ~400 when we were acquired) to a largish one (Sun is close to 34,000 today).
Sun is big. I remember a statistic from 9th grade physics that the number of basketballs you can fit in the Earth is roughly the same as the number of Earths you can fit in our local star. I think there is a similar ratio for the number of MySQLs (offices, people, servers, etc) you can fit in the terrestrial Sun.
Some interesting first-month facts: