Over the last few weeks I had been quite silent, but that's about to change: Over the next few weeks I'll give a few presentations. Feel free to join any of those.
DrupalDownUnder 2012 will be held in Melbourne Australia 13-15 January. A great event, I’ve been to several of its predecessors. People there don’t care an awful lot for databases, but they do realise that sometimes it’s important to either learn more about it or talk to someone specialised in that field. And when discussing general infrastructure, resilience is quite relevant. Clients want a site to remain up, but keep costs low.
I will teach pre-conference training sessions on the Friday at DDU:
The material is made specific to Drupal developers and users. The query design skills, for instance, will help you with module development and designing Drupal Views. The two half-days can also be booked as a MySQL Training Pack for $395.
On Saturday afternoon in the main conference, I have a session Scaling out your Drupal and Database Infrastructure, Affordably covering the topics of resilience, ease of maintenance, and scaling.
I’m honoured to have been selected to do these sessions, I know there were plenty of submissions from excellent speakers. As with all Drupal conferences, attendees also vote on which submissions they would like to see.
After DDU I’m travelling on to Ballarat for LinuxConfAU 2012, where I’m not speaking in the main program this year, but will have sessions in the “High Availability and Storage” and “Business of Open Source” miniconfs. I’ll do another post on the former – the latter is not related to Open Query.
This recent session at OSDC 2011 Canberra is based on part of an Open Query training day, and (due to time constraints) without much of the usual interactivity, exercises and further MySQL specific detail. People liked it anyway, which is nice! The info as presented is not MySQL specific, it provides general insight in how databases implement concurrency and what trade-offs they make.
See http://2011.osdc.com.au/sqll for the talk abstract.
The New England Database Summit is an all day conference-style event where participants from the research community and industry in the New England area can come together to present ideas and discuss their research and experiences working with on data-related problems. It is an academic conference with applications to real life, and includes any type of database.
The 5th annual NEDB will be held in Cambridge, MA MIT (in 32-123) on Friday, February 3, 2012. Anyone who would like is welcome to present a poster (registration required), or submit a short paper for review. We plan to accept 8--10 papers for presentation (15 minutes) at the meeting. All posters will be accepted.
For more details, and to register and / or upload a paper, see:
http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday12/
The slides from last week’s talks I (co-)presented at Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe are now available from our web site.
All slides are available entirely free of charge for logged-in users on our web site. To log in, you don’t even need to register — just use your Google Profile, or Google Apps account, or your WordPress account, or anything else that uses OpenID, and you’ll be good to go.
Comments on our slides are, of course, always highly appreciated.
Percona Live: London was a rousing success for PalominoDB. I was sad that I could not attend, but I got a few people who sent "hellos" to me via my coworkers. But on to the most important stuff -- slides from our presentations are online!
René Cannao spoke about MySQL Backup and Recovery Tools and Techniques (description) - slides (PDF)
All slides are done, all virtual images are completed and we’re ready to roll for tomorrow’s MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker tutorial at Percona Live UK 2011.
This is probably your very last chance to register for PLUK as there are only a handful of tickets left. You can still use my discount code, HaasPLUK11. See you tomorrow!
(Tune in tomorrow where I tell you how you can win USD$100, like I did last week!)
Not signed up for Percona Live:London and need some motivation to do so? How about a £40.00 discount? That means the Expo Hall is free, regular registration is £260.00 and the tutorials + conference price is £500.00. Use discount code "PDBUK".
In just 3 weeks, RightScale is having a cloud conference in Santa Clara, CA Nov 8-9. There is a Zero-to-cloud training on Tuesday, November 8th, and you can get a 25% discount on the training by using code "RSCONF25".
RightScale and Eucalyptus are teaming up to provide a training, too -- on Thursday, November 10th. If the name Eucalyptus sounds familiar, it is because former MySQL employees Mårten Mickos and Mark Atwood work there. There is a 25% discount off that training by using code "RSEUCT25".
I’m speaking at Percona Live, LinuxCon Europe, and linux.conf.au. And I just co-founded a new company.
I have a few busy weeks behind me, and even busier weeks ahead. If you’ve been wondering why recently I haven’t been updating this space too frequently, here’s why:
Yours truly and fellow ex-Linbiters Martin Loschwitz and Andreas Kurz have recently founded hastexo, an independent professional services organization focused on open-source high availability and disaster recovery. We are already offering both on-site and remote consultancy, custom training, and our Availability Checkup package, with more services lined up to be added to our offering.
We’re able to offer direct, 24/7 access to high availability experts with dial-in numbers in Europe, North America and Australia. We’re offering our services under an extremely flexible, versatile payments scheme with an attractive volume discount model. We’re experts in an array of high availability and disaster recover technologies — like Pacemaker, Corosync, Heartbeat, DRBD, highly available virtualization (a.k.a “enterprise cloud”), and cluster file systems.
And we’ve got a unique, free offering. Have you ever considered hiring a high availability consultant to review your setup or provide expert advice, but were unsure as to the expected cost involved? At hastexo, we can help. You simply go to our Help page (free-of-charge registration required), collect information as instructed, and then just create a ticket in our support system. And we’ll make a qualified estimate as to the amount of effort (and cost) required to fix your issue, or improve your uptime, or both.
And, just in case one of us has previously help you on a mailing list, on IRC, or at a conference, as we frequently do, then please leave us a message in our Shoutbox. We love to support the high availability community, and we’re thrilled to hear about it when we can help.
Speaking of conferences: next week, I’m doing back-to-back conferences in Europe.
And, for those of you making plans for Ballarat in January: I’ll return to linux.conf.au as a tutorial speaker, together with Andrew Beekhof and Tim Serong. I have also submitted a talk for the High Availability and Distributed Storage miniconf, preceding the main conference. See you there!
We go over the open calls for papers, upcoming conferences, conversations with Oracle, and finish up our 2-part series on MySQL security.
Calls for papers:
Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open! They opened it on Friday, September 15th and the call will close on Monday, December 5th. The MySQL Conference & Expo is Tuesday April 10 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.
To submit a paper, first register as a speaker at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/user/register and then go to My Account -> Submit Proposal.