Monty Taylor

Monty Taylor
System Architect, Rackspace Cloud

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Monty currently works as a core developer on the Drizzle project for Rackspace. Before Drizzle he was a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc and then Sun Microsystems focusing on Clustering and High Availability. Between MySQL Consulting and speaking at conferences, he has been to 5 of the 7 continents (and is always aiming for more)

Before MySQL, Monty started several small companies, none of which were the next Facebook. He is an ardent supporter of Free Software and is actively involved in packaging efforts for Debian and Ubuntu. Monty spends the majority of his non-hacking time as a theatre director and lighting designer. He is an Associate Artist with Seattle based theatre company the Satori Group.

Sessions

2:00pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
From SQL to NDB API and the MySQL Cluster Data Nodes and Back Again
MySQL Cluster and High Availability
 Location: Ballroom C
Stewart Smith (Drizzle), Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud)
A discussion of the use of and internals of the NDB API (through C++ and Java) and execution in MySQL Cluster. Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
High Availability Landscape of MySQL
MySQL Cluster and High Availability
 Location: Ballroom C
Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud)
MySQL can be made Highly Available in countless ways, which can make picking the right one tough. We'll compare and contrast many of the popular tools, including Replication, DRBD, Cluster, and more. Read more.
5:15pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
MySQL Cluster and Java (and python, and ruby, and...)
Java, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Ruby and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom A
Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud)
MySQL Cluster is a fault-tolerant, high performance, in memory clustered storage engine. Additionally, it provides a direct API that works underneath the SQL layer that can be used for clients with truly high performance needs. Read more.
9:15am Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Scaling MySQL - Up or Out?
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Kaj Arnö (Sun Microsystems GmbH), John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Jeff Rothschild (Facebook.com), Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud), Domas Mituzas (Facebook), Paul Tuckfield (YouTube), Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)
This lively panel discussion keynote will address the challenges large, modern web properties face in scaling MySQL. Panelists from Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr pair up with MySQL engineers in discussing the current and future problem domain and possible solutions. Read more.
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