Please log in to leave an evaluation

Personal schedule for Ronald Bradford

Download or subscribe to Ronald Bradford's schedule.

Java, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
Location: Ballroom F
Mark Matthews (Oracle)
Connector/J has a wealth of under-promoted performance features. Come to this session to learn about bulk data loading, load balancing, batch rewriting and the "reckless but really fast" options that C/J has. Read more.
Roland Bouman (XCDSQL Solutions / Strukton Rail), Matt Casters (Pentaho Corp.)
Lately there's been a lot of talk about MySQL-based business intelligence and datawarehousing. But what does it all really mean? What's behind the BI/OLAP/ETL alphabet soup, and what in heavens name are star schemas, facts and dimensions? Using the Sakila sample database as material, this session will explain what data warehouses are, what problems they solve, and how they are designed and built. Read more.
Products & Services
Location: Ballroom H
Robert Hodges (Continuent.com)
Amazon cloud computing offers unique capabilities for cheap and scalable computing. This talk provides a down-to-earth description of the challenges of cloud databases and practical recipes to protect data, scale performance, and keep servers fully available. Includes a demo featuring Tungsten clustering and RightScale Management tools. Read more.
Matthew Yonkovit (MySQL), Yves Trudeau (Percona)
The InnoDB storage engine has been modified to use memcached as a level 2 cache, the InnoDB buffer pool being the level 1. Important reduction of the disk load and performance boost has been observed. This opens a new way of scaling out MySQL. Read more.
Dathan Pattishall (Rockyou)
Sharding is all the rage now a days, this presentation explains in detail how Rockyou.com implements Sharding to support over 100 million users across various global social networks. More then 3.4 Billion queries per day are done on this new architecture all using mySQL as a common backend. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Vijay Karamcheti (Virident Systems)
Using SCM to enable fast, random, and low-latency access to large ‘in-memory’ databases, Virident’s GreenCloud servers offer dramatic improvements in performance, scalability, and energy and cost efficiency for MySQL in the data center. Read more.
Architecture and Technology
Location: Ballroom F
Ronald Bradford (EffectiveMySQL)
Monitoring is not rocket science yet so many websites and organizations simply don't do the basics. Why? It's not a complex problem, and having monitoring & metrics in place can both prevent disaster and give great insight to solving problems more easily.Prevent unnecessary extended down time and have perform tuning gathering timings with a detailed history at your fingertips in a few easy steps. Read more.
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
Amazon EC2 is a new platform on which to run MySQL. This session evaluates the performance possible on the variety of hardware configurations available with EC2. Read more.
Location: Ballroom F
The MySQL Conference Quiz Show pits teams of contestants against each other in a battle of geek wit, ingenuity, MySQL knowledge, and speed Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Don MacAskill (SmugMug)
A story of scaling, in today's world - using modern technologies like ZFS, OpenStorage, MySQL, and more, running one of the world's most popular photo sharing sites - SmugMug. Read more.
Replication and Scale-Out
Location: Ballroom H
Robert Hodges (Continuent.com)
In this talk, we will present an introduction to the Tungsten Replicator, which provides open source, database-neutral replication. The Tungsten Replicator has unique capabilities that for solving problems that go well beyond the capabilities of existing open source replication such as built-in MySQL Replication. Read more.
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Brian Aker (Data Differential)
Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Gearman can help in building scalable MySQL-backed applications or use through a user-defined function. Gearman’s generic design allows it to be used as a building block for a wide variety of applications, from farming out image processing to building your own Map/Reduce implementation. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Chuck Hagenbuch (Blue State Digital), Leigh Heyman (Blue State Digital), Stephen Gunn (Google, Inc), Mikey Dickerson (Google), Ian Gulliver (Google)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign created an unprecedented online grassroots movement in which supporters generated thousands of events, made millions of phone calls, raised record amounts of money, and received over a billion emails. Read more.

Co-presented By:

O'Reilly Media MySQL/Sun Microsystems
  • Kickfire
  • Virident
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Intel
  • Advanced Micro Devices
  • BIRT Exchange by Actuate
  • Calpont
  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
  • Facebook
  • HiT Software, Inc.
  • IBM
  • iDashboards
  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SQLstream
  • Ticketmaster
  • Zmanda, Inc.
  • Linux Journal

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com

Download the MySQL Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus

Media Partner Opportunities

Download the Media & Promotional Partner Brochure (PDF) for information on trade opportunities with O'Reilly conferences or contact mediapartners@ oreilly.com

Press and Media

For media-related inquiries, contact Maureen Jennings at maureen@oreilly.com

MySQL Conference Newsletter

To stay abreast of conference news and to receive email notification when registration opens, please sign up for the MySQL Conference newsletter.

Contact Us

View a complete list of MySQL contacts.