This thread is almost exactly the reason why I started looking at SSI style clustering, and back then Mosix in particular , well. ages ago :) Things evolved but even with MigSHM in place a SSI style cluster doesn't solve your problem when you try to scale a database. But how DO you scale a database ? Things have become a bit more easy lately when you combine MySQL-Cluster with LVS , however we still need to figure out a way to do similar stuff for large databases. We really really need this disk storage feature for MySQL cluster some day :)
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Sebastian Bergmann writes:
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
Focus of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks about current topics in free software and open source. Furthermore, space will be provided for developers of free software and open source projects to organize their own developer meetings or even their own program.
FrOSCon is organized for the first time in 2006 by the department of computer science in collaboration with the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin, the student body and the FrOSCon e.V., and aims to establish itself as the largest event of its kind in Rhineland.
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If you want to submit a talk for FrOSCon in June, you will have to hurry: The
deadline for the call for papers is approaching.
Talks can be submitted until March, 15th 2006. The
organizers ask for talks about free software and open source.
Expert knowledge on programming languages, free software on the
desktop, security, administration and networks is in demand.
Talks about the philosophy of free software and experience with
free software in business settings is another focus of the
conference.
Besides the conference program, the organizers have a special
offer for open source projects: Projects can apply for a
developer room at FrOSCon. This room is managed by the project
and can for …
Mar
03
2006
If you want to submit a talk for FrOSCon in June, you
will have to hurry: The deadline for the call for papers is
approaching.
Talks can be submitted until March, 15th 2006. The
organizers ask for talks about free software and open source.
Expert knowledge on programming languages, free software on the
desktop, security, administration and networks is in demand.
Talks about the philosophy of free software and experience with
free software in business settings is another focus of the
conference.
Besides the conference program, the organizers have a special
offer for open source projects: Projects can apply for a
developer room at FrOSCon. This room is managed by the project
and can for example be used for developer meetings. Members of
the project can meet in this room, exchange ideas, …
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03
2006
Mar
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2006
Believe it or not, we have a shortage of developers at MySQL. We have more positions open than there are candidates to fill the posts with.
As such, MySQL AB enjoys an inflow of quite a lot of applications. It feels like a privilege to be attractive to professionals across the world.
However, we have very specific needs. On http://www.mysql.com/company/jobs/, I counted eight positions open regardless of your location in the world, and five of them are in development:
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2006
Now why doesn't this contest surpise me ..
2 weeks ago when I was testing Disk Data in MySQL Cluster I submitted Bug 1705 and joked to Mikael about the bugs for iPod contest being over , he referred me to the Hall Of Fame Contest.. guess what .. now there is a new contest :)
Happy hunting..
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Today, I had a very long conversation with a client and his
hosting company who would not apply a few basic configuration
changes to their site and who refused to upgrade his MySQL
installation from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5.
The conversation was so intense that after I got off the phone, I
had to take a few hours and write about it.
Many managed hosting customers do not know what exactly they are
getting when they sign up for "managed hosting" leading to
numerous troubles in both the short run and the long run.
I have come across many such instances where the client thought
that if they needed to upgrade MySQL or PHP, the managed hosting company would do it for
them.
The hosting company went from "we provide fully managed hosting
service" to " basically your server is non-managed" all in one …
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2006