My (hypothetical) MySQL UC 2006 schedule
Conference time! While I understand Frank’s feelings, there’s always hope that there will be some great “blog reports”, amazing IRC, and if at all, some form of podcasts.
However, if I was going to the MySQL Users Conference 2006, I’d probably attend things in this order:
- Monday – Arjen’s Optimizing MySQL Applications Using the Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture because this is important stuff all folk should learn about. Performance being the name of the game these days, it’d be silly to miss MySQL Performance Optimization that our very own performance guru, Peter Zaitsev will be giving.
- Tuesday – Mono is hot, right? Might as well listen to Creating .NET applications with Linux and MySQL. In the VoIP and telco industry, it would seem that The Case for Carried Grade Linux in Telecom would rock. Go for Jay’s Performance Tuning Best Practices (his last webminar rocked!). Come 4.30pm I get torn between Embedding MySQL, MySQL Partitioning, or the Sakila Sample DB. Again, back to performance, Peter runs the 5.0 vs. 4.1 review – these results will be really interesting.
- Wednesday – How do you choose between Speeding-up Queries or a talk on Backups? Or an Asterisk talk versus Security by Example? Heck, even at the tail end of the day there’s competition – Tuning Stored Procedures or a more “in this world” talk by Alcatel on Building scalabale Telecoms databases on MySQL. This is a talk I’d love to see in a Webminar so everyone else can watch.
- Thursday – I haven’t mentioned any of the keynotes per se, but I suggest all wake up and attend Mark Shuttleworth’s talk on Ubuntu (and MySQL). I’d then hit Plugging Your Applications into the MySQL Storage Engine Layer by Brian Aker (even though there’s a .NET session that looks interesting). Technical talks like Optimizing MySQL on Source Code Level will definitely be worth your time, as will the Django talk. Heard of ipTel? Their real-life large scale VoIP deployments should be interesting.
Well, that pretty much sums it up. The MySQL Users Conference looks like a little week of lots of learning. If you can go, be there.
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