I'll be speaking at the MySQL Conference and Expo on April 22-25
in Santa Clara. On April 25 at 1:50 PM I'll be talking about
using MySQL in the Amazon AWS cloud but to be
honest, I hevn't done much formal preparations. I will prepare
some slides here, but fact is that most of this session will be
practical, hands-on stuff. Largely, I'll show stuff that I used
when I was Database Architect and Admin for a reasonably large
AWS installation.
Anyone telling you that Amazon AWS is just like any other
environment, except that disk-I/O is slower, doesn't get it,
there is much more to AWS than that. By using the services that
comes as part of AWS there are loads on things you as a DBA or
Devops can do to simplify and automate everyday tasks. Backups,
slave provisioning, availability are things that can make really
good use of AWS. So armed with an AWS account and some MySQL
instances running there, I'll be showing you some real world
examples.
Also, you may ask why I haven't been blogging much recently? If
this worries you, I think you should get a day job. Jokes aside,
I was testing MySQL replication in real life, but it sort of
failed on me, and I ended up with twins alright, but one boy and
one girl. These two has taken a lot of my time recently, and the
joys of blogging and writing code in spare time was changed to
exercising the joy of changing dipers on these little
babies:
I will do some more blogging now again though, I have promised
myself to do that, but I have loads of other things to do
also.
/Karlsson
Mar
29
2013