MySQL Rocks: Wen Huang, in Makati City, Philippines
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008I’m at the Sun Tech Days in beautiful Philippines, and all I can say is the energy is tremendous. I’m hearing there are about 1,400 attendees, and this number might grow tomorrow.
Armed with a video camera, I decided to take a few video snapshots. My first victimguest on my yet to be named videocast is Wen Huang, Product Manager for NetBeans, at Sun Microsystems.
Wen Huang has been a MySQL user since 1999, and had a past life as a web developer in various web shops, some large, some small. One commonality he had at all his jobs though is that they always use MySQL.
He’s an action junkie, preferring to have the latest version of the MySQL database all the time, and can’t wait for MySQL 5.1 when it comes out. Do remember that there exists a NetBeans with Glassfish and MySQL bundle. I’ve also blogged about this before, don’t hesitate to read my review titled NetBeans 6.1 with GlassFish, MySQL bundle.
So there you have it. Go forth, and try the great bundle, as its an all-in-one install of an IDE, an application server, and a database server.
Horizontal Scaling with HiveDB
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008At the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, Britt Crawford and Justin McCarthy, both from Cafepress.com, gave us a very interesting talk on scaling with HiveDB. I took a few notes (pasted below), their slides are online (warning: 6.1MB PDF), and if you’re after their abstract its available as well.
I also took a video of them (refer to Slide 12, for the IRC conversation):
The quick notes:
- OLTP optimised (as it serves cafepress.com)
- Cannot lock tables, or take it offline
- Constant response time is more important than low latency (little slower query is ok, just not exponentially slower)
- Queries run might return wildly sized result sets.
- There can be growth and usage hotspots. You cannot predict this at all.
- Partition by key (the set of all partition keys is the partition dimension)
- Partitioned Hibernate from Google (Hibernate Shards). HiveDB is now married up with shards.
- Thought about MySQL Proxy to support high availability components, but it was dismissed
Lazyweb: Editing MP4 .AVI’s on a Mac?
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Dear (mac) Lazyweb,
I have MP4 files. DivX encoded, I should presume, because after installing the DivX codecs, I can play them in Quicktime Pro.
I however, cannot import these .AVI MP4 files into iMovie.
Workaround? Use QuickTime Pro to export it to a QuickTime Movie (.MOV), then open it in iMovie, then re-export after “fiddling” with it.
Surely, there must be an easier way? Will Final Cut or something similar help?
What do video bloggers/video podcasters use, for quick and easy (and hopefully, cheap) video editing on Mac OS X?
Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks!