First tutorial of Monday morning at the MySQL Users Conference is Johan Anderson on MySQL Cluster Configuration, Tuning and Maintenance. Found a spot next to Giuseppe (the data charmer) and a power strip (which are in ample supply here).

Johan came with the cluster aquisition from Ericsson to MySQL in 2003 and works mostly as a consultant with other folks using MySQL cluster for telecom, search engines and e-commerce. Likes to keep it simple, or be sure to avoid areas where the cluster isn't the best (ie MySQL cluster isn't great at joins).

Johan starts with a general overview, using the typical diagram of the cluster nodes and walks through the pieces of the cluster. MySQL is currently working on a new feature where you can add a …

At our user's conference this week, Jim Starkey will be discussing his latest database engine, codenamed Falcon.  Falcon brings to MySQL Jim's 30 years of data management experience to create an engine that is optimized for modern scale-out applications with lots of memory. 

Falcon is ACID compliant with a multi-generational architecture that guarantees server-enforced referential integrity.  It's based on MVCC (which Jim essentially invented) so it keeps lock contention near zero, ensuring very high performance.  Falcon uses advanced B-Tree indexing and includes crash recovery.  Jim's approach has also been to make sure the engine is easy to use and automatically manages storage allocation so there's no need to manually reorganize things.

We'll be presenting Falcon in the context of the overall …

that is not beer

Well, I registered a while ago, but I picked up the conference satchel et cetera today. It's a canvas satchel much like LCA 2005, but with fewer goodies (and more paper). There is one cool thing -- I got to pick an O'Reilly book about MySQL to have in the bag. Interestingly, there is a SCAMP CD in the bag. That's Sco, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl. Hmmmm. Kinda in poor taste that one me thinks.

Everything else is cool. That is all.

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Well, I registered a while ago, but I picked up the conference satchel et cetera today. It's a canvas satchel much like LCA 2005, but with fewer goodies (and more paper). There is one cool thing -- I got to pick an O'Reilly book about MySQL to have in the bag. Interestingly, there is a SCAMP CD in the bag. That's Sco, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl. Hmmmm. Kinda in poor taste that one me thinks.

Everything else is cool. That is all.

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So the last few days have been randomly fun. I’ve been to Fry’s several times to grab random bits and bobs. Things I don’t need, but now have. Hung out with Mikal and Stewart quite a bit, which is always fun. Had lots to drink, and have gotten some work done!

All that aside, today was reserved mostly for our CEO’s house party. It was highly fun, there was drink, great food, and even song!

Stewart by the bar

There was Foster’s beer! Haha. Go Australian export beer. And Morgan was caught having some. I got to meet so many MySQLers its going to be hard to remember them all. I’m sure by the time the UC is over, all will be well.

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Me and my wife arrived safe and sound in San Francisco on Friday afternoon. The flight was long but not too bad. Early in the flight there was a lot of turbulence but the pilot warned us about it.

I have never been to San Francisco and much like Roland, its beauty and landscape swept me from my feet.

After arriving I went straight to Hertz to pick up a car that I had already reserved. Since
they didn't have the car I reserved, they gave me a free upgrade to Sonata, which I must say
is quite a car.

We drove to Monterey, CA to see my sister in law's family. The drive was very scenic. In the
way we saw (but didn't take) the exit for Mountain View, CA (Hint: Google). We were
literally starving by this time as we live about 2 hours away from Atlanta and after being
up since 4:00 AM, I just …

As a prelude to the MySQL users conference,

Markus and I went to fetch Mike from the airport to do some sightseeing.

Well, it's like this, I'm from a country that's very small in every way. Apart from being small, it's also very flat. Can you imagine what a place like San Francisco does with someone that's been living for over 30 years in such an enviroment? No?

Check out what happened to us while we were sightseeing San Francisco:

Mike already blogged about us taking the cable cart....

But he didn't tell you how fast these things go:

...and what perils it faces when it navigates it's way through the other traffic...

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Arrived at SFO at 9am this morning without event. Marcus and Roland were nice enough to pick me up at the airport with the intention of heading into San Fransicso for the day. After a slight amount of driving confusion we ended up near Fisherman's Warf. We hopped on one of the old-school, tourist trolleys and rode up (and then back down) to Union Square where we walked around a bit, had some lunch and visited the Apple store (they are also out of non-lime-green 15" laptop sleeves). The trolley ride back across town had a spot for hanging off, I couldn't resist. It was well worth the $5 each way to have the trolley experience and see some of San Fransicso.

After taking the trolley back over to Fisherman's Warf we hopped in the car and drove …

Because I've been busy with work and travel in the last few weeks, there's a lot I haven't had the time to blog about. So, I decided to try to summarize the important stuff I've missed in one rushed, disorganized post. (Maybe you missed some stuff, too.) Please feel free to add to this quick summary, and be sure to keep up with PHPDeveloper.org for more thorough PHP news coverage.

I dropped by the April meeting of the Nashville PHP User Group. It is a very cool group of people who meet at a local cafe and chat about PHP and related technologies. I had a few pints of Murphy's Stout, so I can't imagine a better meeting. Paul Jones drove up from Memphis, and it was nice to meet him in person.

The Zend Framework …