{"id":705,"date":"2008-01-28T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T22:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/mysql-miniconf-starts"},"modified":"2008-01-28T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T22:41:46","slug":"mysql-miniconf-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/mysql-miniconf-starts","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Miniconf Starts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arjen and Stewart are on stage, and there&#8217;s an introduction session going on now. We&#8217;re now, introducing the ex-MySQLers (Arjen), and MySQLers (Stewart, Giuseppe, me). Trent has just walked in, so that makes all the MySQLers that are around at linux.conf.au.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of some of the attendees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A user from LG, who has been using MySQL for about 3 years now<\/li>\n<li>An technology manager in defense, interested in MySQL as an education exercise<\/li>\n<li>A MySQL user for over 8 years<\/li>\n<li>Systems administrator who&#8217;s been heavily using MySQL for 5 years, however with a total of about 8 years of use<\/li>\n<li>Systems administrator at IBM, using MySQL for a long time<\/li>\n<li>Travel startup in the Gold Coast, doing lots of MySQL, replication, proxy use<\/li>\n<li>A software engineer at HP, in China, and they use MySQL for benchmarking on HP hardware<\/li>\n<li>A Connector\/J user<\/li>\n<li>realestate.com.au, is a Perl+Apache+MySQL shop<\/li>\n<li>A IBM guy who works in performance tuning<\/li>\n<li>Canon Research Labs in Sydney, but now working in a new small-ish firm, using a lot of MySQL<\/li>\n<li>MySQL for a VoIP company. They&#8217;ve tried mcluster, and it sucked ;) (and now, they want Cluster)<\/li>\n<li>Bolt on&#8217;s, to old accounting packages. Using MySQL with Delphi; fiddling with Mondrian, Pentaho now and also looking at JBOSS<\/li>\n<li>PHP developer using MySQL for CMS systems, using it for about 6+ years<\/li>\n<li>m5 Networks, VoIP company, using MySQL, needs to scale, looking at Cluster<\/li>\n<li>Lonely Planet, MySQL DBA, who needs more tips on scalability and high availability<\/li>\n<li>Moodle host, also interested in high availability<\/li>\n<li>Stronghold CMS, they&#8217;d like MySQL to support sequences on a transaction, and they don&#8217;t want it in a stored procedure. They work for the government, to some extent (afaik).<\/li>\n<li>Using MySQL in education for research\/study<\/li>\n<li>Asterisk, and MySQL<\/li>\n<li>Drupal, and optimising MySQL, so it can scale<\/li>\n<li>vquence, who need to store over 100 million videos, and they&#8217;d like MySQL to scale for them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The trend is there are a lot of VoIP companies, and a lot of folk wanting high availability, and scaling to amazing lengths. Very interesting. OK, Stewart is going to tell us what&#8217;s new in MySQL now&#8230; He&#8217;s got a bottle of liquor available, in traditional Monty tradition :)<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql%20miniconf\" rel=\"tag\">mysql miniconf<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux.conf.au\" rel=\"tag\">linux.conf.au<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lca08\" rel=\"tag\">lca08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arjen and Stewart are on stage, and there&#8217;s an introduction session going on now. We&#8217;re now, introducing the ex-MySQLers (Arjen), and MySQLers (Stewart, Giuseppe, me). Trent has just walked in, so that makes all the MySQLers that are around at linux.conf.au. Highlights of some of the attendees: A user from LG, who has been using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}