{"id":769,"date":"2008-04-10T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/10\/a-slice-of-wednesday-5-must-see-talks"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:46:04","slug":"a-slice-of-wednesday-5-must-see-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/10\/a-slice-of-wednesday-5-must-see-talks","title":{"rendered":"A slice of Wednesday – 5 must-see talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A session at the MySQL Conference 2008 that I’d have loved to attend, would have been the Adopting and Adapting OSS at Shinsei Bank<\/a>. As a case study, Shinsei Bank<\/a> in Japan is a great MySQL customer and use case – they’re a bank. A pretty large bank… <\/p>\n

Sadly, the session has been cancelled. Never fear, because at 4.25pm on Wednesday, the 16th of April 2008, there are seven<\/b> other great sessions.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in web security<\/b>, then look no further than Eli White’s talk titled Help, My Website Has Been Hacked! Now What?<\/a> Eli works at Digg, and might have some invaluable practical advice for you.<\/p>\n

If you’re more the systems administrator<\/b>, you have to look at Using MySQL Cluster in a High Volume Email Environment<\/a> by James Blair and Paul Fisher (both from the UC Berkeley). Learn how to configure Exim to use MySQL, or learn how to get Postgrey working with MySQL, and a whole lot more. I think this could be a highly interesting talk to be at (I’m sure the UC Berkeley mail system, like any other university, is honking huge).<\/p>\n

Need to squeeze MySQL? Best way to do so is to benchmark and monitor the server. Tom Hanlon has Part 1 of his talk, titled Benchmarking and Monitoring: Tools of the Trade<\/a>. Talks with the words “performance” or “benchmarking” tend to usually be standing-room only crowds… Be warned :)<\/p>\n

While Falcon and InnoDB are different storage engines, and have different end goals, if you’re currently an InnoDB user, thinking about Falcon, you want to attend Falcon for InnoDB users<\/a> by Kevin Lewis (Falcon Team Lead) and Ann Harrison. Should prove to be very interesting, and I’m sure Jim Starkey (father of Falcon) will be nice and up-in-the-front of the audience…<\/p>\n

Everyone’s screaming about Web 2.0 now… Patrick Galbraith, a member of the MySQL Alumni, decided to focus on Web 2.0 (Grazr) rather than just database code (Perl DBI, FEDERATED, mysqlslap, etc.). In Grazr: Lessons Learned Building a Web 2.0 Application Using MySQL<\/a>, Patrick and colleague Michael Kowalchik tell you how MySQL scales in the startup environment, using replication, many character sets, and so on.<\/p>\n

There’s 5\/7 talks that I’ve recommended you attend. How does one split oneself? As homework, go read the schedule<\/a> to find out about the two other great talks (if you use Phorum, there’s one you need to be at too).<\/p>\n

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