My new Google family since I’ve now moved to the US. Ronald, James, Michael, Shona and Kynan (front). James has literally been here in the US only a few days more then me, and he has an amazing Day 1 story.
Apparently there are a reasonable number of Australians now working for Google. Another interesting fact is the male/female ratio is 6:1 which is extremely high in comparison to the IT industry and IT related university studies.
So, mid morning especially after having a heavy and late night
drinking with new friends in Palo Alto I was seeking at Day #3 of
the MySQL
Camp a high-caffeine pick me up drink. Yesterday I had a
Bawls, and after enjoying it I was a little
concerned that when I returned to New York I would not be able to
buy it. You can get it at Think Geek but that’s more complicated then a
local supermarket.
So after getting a Googler to get me to the cafe fridge we find out that there weren’t any there. No problem, lets just go this way I’m told. So we start a quick tour of the larger cafe area and another set of fridges but no Bawls, we keep walking, no more again. At this time the recommendation is I should try a Rockstar, but so …
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Early on Sunday Day #3, I dragged a few willing participants out
for a “different photo” based on the umbrellas in each Lobby. It
worked out well. Special thanks to Kynan who ran around to other
lobby’s to find additional umbrellas. (He is the one holding the
white one, and yes, that’s a utility Kilt).
I’ll be uploading more in this series to My Flickr Photos MySQL Camp 01 soon.
You can get a larger copy of image Here.
MySQL Replibeertion was the last scheduled session on Day 2, but not withstanding there was free beer (a lot of), there was a serious side with a Replication Discussion.
One of the first questions by Jeremy was “Are the any big replication users?” to which Sheeri quickly replied “Are you calling me fat again”.
This was a highly interactive session, here are some of the points from the audience.
Some Uses of Replication
Issues
Continuing on from my Day 1 - Memorable Quotes from the MySQL Camp.
“Are there any big replication users” — Jeremy “Are you calling me fat again” — Sheeri
“Only some of us have problems with interruptions.” — Jeremy to Jay
“It really really sucks in production systems.” — Jeremy About Slave management by Master.
“So there are like 12 people here, it must be the CEO’s turn to talk.” — Marten Mickos MySQL CEO
“Kegs and Eggs” — Joel S. Regarding all beer that will still be available at breakfast tomorrow.
“You can fight to the death for it”, Jeremy to his two employees Joel and Justin about who gets to be called employee #1.
“Patches go to employee #1″ — Ronald directed to Joel when a replication patch was coined by Jeremy and …
[Read more]Our first session in Day 2 of the MySQL Camp was the MySQL Winter of Code, as well as an overview of the QA Pilot program and Overview of the Community Doxygen Project by Kaj Arnö and Jay Pipes.
Starting with discussions on Code Contributions & MySQL Winter of Code
Quality Contributer Program
Requirements for Winter of Code
Colin, son of Gary is officially the youngest attendee of the
MySQL Camp.
The new breed of MySQL DBA’s.
Colin really loves the swivel chairs, and now has is own Google shirt courtesy of Leslie!
Also check it out on Gary’s site.
I just read this post, thanks to the database log buffer:
http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql.html
I think the major point is subtle, and can be gotten by taken the first and last few sentences of the post:
“If cost were no object, I’d always deploy Oracle. I’m comfortable with Oracle technology and I think I have a pretty good idea how to implement and administer it….My company is sold on MySQL and as our confidence grows in the software, so will our installed base.”
He says that MySQL is an “80% solution” but he would not use it for “mission critical applications.” I will venture to say that this is because he is not familiar with MySQL. If he were, …
[Read more]I just read this post, thanks to the database log buffer:
http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql.html
I think the major point is subtle, and can be gotten by taken the first and last few sentences of the post:
“If cost were no object, I’d always deploy Oracle. I’m comfortable with Oracle technology and I think I have a pretty good idea how to implement and administer it….My company is sold on MySQL and as our confidence grows in the software, so will our installed base.”
He says that MySQL is an “80% solution” but he would not use it for “mission critical applications.” I will venture to say that this is because he is not familiar with MySQL. If he were, …
[Read more]Plenty of people are writing highly technical stuff from MySQL Camp including your’s truly. However there needs to be a lighter side here, and well this is it, Memorable Quotes.
“That’s moderately easy to difficult.” Brian Aker talking about table_funcs in A MySQL Core Kernel
“That’s Trivial, it’s less then a day’s work”, Monty, also in “A MySQL Core Kernel”, of course Monty said “It’s Trivial” several times, and that’s fine, it probably is trivial and is a day’s work for the guru’s, the problem is there are presently 6,000 trivial day’s work on the list of things to do.
“I’m trying to estimate when my finger will fall off.” — Jay Pipes You had to be there. I will say no more.
?You work for InnoDB, right? — Dathan Vance Pattishall of …
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