When Jeremy left yahoo a lot of people were left wondering “who would be the next Jeremy?” some people thought it would be me. Since then I have been asked several times why I’m not going to take a turn in the ivory tower. Now that things are in place the secret can be let out. Jeremy’s startup Proven Scaling is not just Jeremy’s startup but our startup. We have decided to take our MySQL skills and apply them to the problems of several companies.

Eric Bergen
MySQL Geek / Owner
Proven Scaling L.L.C.
eric@provenscaling.com

I am sitting in JD Duncan's session "Introducing mod_ndb, a REST Web Services API for MySQL Cluster" as it is really interesting. I kind of wanted to attend the SolidDB storage engine session and the community session happening concurrently, but the mod_ndb stuff is pretty cool.

I am going to try to get the presentation files hopefully from JD.

In case you are wondering, NDB = Network Database.

The HTTP Database uses HTTP instead of SQL. He is planning to create a good HTTP database in the future.

How to get mod_ndb:

(If you are at Google) http://192.168.22.214/code
otherwise: jdd at mysql dot com

Random Notes:

If you are a "PHP shop" its beneficial to use multithreading.

"sort merge join is better than nested loop join" …

Like everyone else, I am very excited to be at Google headquarters attending MySQL Camp. There are more than 200 attendees at the camp, which is really exciting. During the last couple of days, the number participants literally doubled. Folks from YouTube, Google, Yahoo and of course MySQL are all here.

So far I have met Jay Pipes, Jeremy Cole, Eric Bergen, Paul Tuckfield (YouTube and PayPal:paul at tuckfield), Kaj Arno and …

The great thing about this unconference, is the lack of total formal structure. For now , our first session we are having an open introduction of people, there are at good 60+ people here already, and people rolling in, and it’s great to hear people’s background, and also to bag Jeremy Cole at every opportunity. We have a variety of people from various backgrounds, companies and experience levels.

We are in the Kiev room, with power build into the desks, lots of desk space and full 360% swivel chairs. This is just another example of the company’s clear thinking about it’s requirements.

There have already been some very funny stories, I should have made more earlier notes. Here are some.

Adam Ritter (Proven Scaling ride winner) was the first to bag Oracle, really bold move with Ken Jacobs from Oracle …

MySQL AB has licensed lbpool - a load balancing and fault tolerant JDBC driver written in Java that I developed six months ago for use within Tailrank.

The lbpool project provides a load balancing JDBC driver for use with DB connection pools. It wraps a normal JDBC driver providing reconnect semantics in the event of additional hardware availability, partial system failure, or uneven load distribution. It also evenly distributes all new connections among slave DB servers in a given pool. Each time connect() is called it will attempt to use the best server with the least system load.

I originally designed lbpool based on the difficulty I had at managing MySQL clusters in a former life. Basically, the more clients you have and the more slave servers you have the greater the chance that something will crash and end up ruining …

This are the steps to setup a brand new installation of OS X Server Tiger. This is for an "all in one" server typical for a small or startup WebObjects website or as a server used for testing. This setup is for MySQL 4.1, WebObjects 5.3, Apache webserver. The mechanics of WebObjects setup on a new installation of OS X Tiger is straight-forward and easier than with previous versions of OS X Server.

What if we made a storage engine that used MogileFS to store blobs/images?

I’m happy to release version 0.1 of the NDB/Python bindings. They are very young and not very well documented yet, but email me if you are interested in them and especially if you are interested in helping out. I’ll get a Trac system up and going (or something) or maybe sourceforge or savannah or google code or you know, whatever.

python-ndbapi-0.1.tar.bz2

Welcome to the 18th Log Buffer, the weekly human-edited review of news from database blogs. There’s no shortage of conferences and news about them, so let’s have a couple items on UK Oracle User Group Conference & Exhibition (UKOUG) to start. The titular Doug Burns of Doug’s Oracle Blog posts his personal agenda for the UKOUG. [...]

This are the steps to setup a brand new installation of OS X Server Tiger. This is for an "all in one" server typical for a small or startup WebObjects website or as a server used for testing. This setup is for MySQL 4.1, WebObjects 5.3, Apache webserver. The mechanics of WebObjects setup on a new installation of OS X Tiger is straight-forward and easier than with previous versions of OS X Server.