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The O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 is over. I hope all of you had a good time. I have plenty of blog posts and thoughts lined up about this, but first, I’d like to point out something that has become a tradition, that was continued in 2010: the O’Reilly MySQL Conference Community Award Winners.

Tim O’Reilly was kind enough to hand out the awards this year. In case people were wondering, the awards were pewter wine goblets from Royal Selangor.

Selection of the award winners happened via voting from the alumni of winners, and was all done in a rather short period of time. Kudos to the entire team that voted. Now for the winners…

O’Reilly MySQL Community Member of the Year 2010

1. Mark Callaghan is known for his work in leading a MySQL engineering team first at Google, and now at Facebook. In addition, the panel appreciated his insightful and always tasteful blogging, ranging from insightful benchmark reports to open source community advocacy.
2. Kai ‘Oswald’ Seidler is a developer of XAMPP, a multi-platform LAMP stack, especially popular amongst Microsoft Windows users. Many users get their first contact with the AMP (Apache-MySQL-PHP) platform using XAMPP!
3. Daniel Nichter created the Hack MySQL Kit, hacks on Maatkit and heaps of other software. He’s also a fabulous MySQL DBA.

O’Reilly MySQL Application of the Year 2010
Twitter was unanimously voted to be the application of the year in 2010.

Panellist Marc Delisle described his use of Twitter recently:

“Seven weeks ago I was in Niamey, Niger during the coup d’état. While borders and the airport were closed and a tank was patrolling on my street, I took refuge at the Canadian embassy where Twitter users updated me on the situation, almost minute by minute.”

O’Reilly MySQL Corporate Sponsor of the year 2010

1. Rackspace received the award for hiring many of the core Drizzle developers, enabling them to work full-time on the MySQL fork. Rackspace also contributes to open source projects like MariaDB, Drizzle and more, providing hosting.
2. Percona has over the last years hired many valuable MySQL contributors, and have a lot of consultants and developers extending MySQL and tools around it. Percona’s team blog on MySQL performance is also highly regarded within the community.

Another picture from the excellent James Duncan Davidson:

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Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list:

• Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems
• Peter Zaitsev: Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication
• Baron Schwartz: EXPLAIN Demystified
• Vadim Tkachenko: An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases
• Matt Yonkovit: The Five Minute DBA
• Bill Schuler, Baron Schwartz: Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB
• Fernando Ipar: PHP Object-Relational Mapping Libraries In Action
• Baron Schwartz: Read-Write Splitting: Techniques, Challenges, and Solutions
• Matt Yonkovit, Yves Trudeau: Choosing the Right Tools for the Job, SQL or NOSQL
• Vadim Tkachenko, et al: Panel: How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures
• Morgan Tocker: Understanding the Role of IO As a Bottleneck
• Baron Schwartz: MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti
• Vadim Tkachenko: XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More
• Aleksandr Kuzminsky: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables
• Ryan Lowe: Achieving PCI Compliance with MySQL
• Yves Trudeau: How to choose High Availability solutions for MySQL
• Yasufumi Kinoshita: How to Fulfil the Potential of InnoDB’s Performance and Scalability
• Peter Zaitsev: Choosing Hardware and Operating Systems for MySQL
• Peter Zaitsev: Instrumenting your Application for MySQL and Memcached
• Peter Zaitsev: InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization – Part 1 and InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization – Part 2

In addition, you’ll be able to visit us at our booth in the expo hall, where you can play Stump The Experts with your tough problems. And Daniel Nichter will be staffing the Maatkit booth, so you can ask him all about Maatkit. If Maatkit is of interest to you, you might also want to attend the Maatkit BoF session.

We look forward to seeing you there. It’s going to be a great conference!

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I’ve submitted a Birds of a Feather session for Maatkit at the upcoming MySQL conference. It’s not on the public schedule yet, but it has been accepted and scheduled for 19:00 on 13 Apr 2010. See you there!

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One of my colleagues, Ryan Lowe, has just heard that his session on PCI compliance with MySQL has been accepted at the upcoming MySQL conference. Ryan is highly qualified to present this topic, and not many people can say that; I certainly can’t claim that title myself. If you’re looking to learn how to make your MySQL installation PCI-compliant, there’s also not a lot of trustworthy information online. Personally — and really, no bias just because he’s my colleague — I think this is a great session for the MySQL conference, which I sometimes thought didn’t have enough diversity of topics in past years. We need more stuff like this to give people a reason to return after they’ve gone for 2 or 3 years in a row.

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I’m speaking at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference 2010. I hope I don’t lose my voice, because I have four sessions!

• Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems
• EXPLAIN Demystified
• Read-Write Splitting: Techniques, Challenges, and Solutions
• MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti

You can click through on the links above to learn more about each session. I’m also looking forward to the other sessions. Here’s a sample of a few that I have my eye on:

• Linux performance tuning and stabilization tips by Yoshinori Matsunobu
• MySQL Proxy meets: Memcache by Jan Kneschke
• PHP Object-Relational Mapping Libraries In Action by Fernando Ipar

The schedule is far from complete, because the conference committee is still working on it, but the proposals to choose from are impressive. Stay tuned as more talks are approved and the schedule fills out, and don’t wait too long to register and book your flight! This is going to be a banner year.

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I’m on the MySQL conference committee again this year, so I’ll be reading and voting on your session proposals. My past experience is that reading 400 session proposals is a mind-numbing job, and I will be optimizing it to save my time. That means I will be scanning your proposals and deciding very quickly how to vote. I wrote before about how to submit a great proposal, but I’ve refined my opinion since then. Here are my suggestions:

• Write for two audiences: reviewers and attendees. Both of us want the same thing: to decide as quickly as possible whether your session will be good.
• Write a strong title/headline. Don’t know how? Here’s a good start. The title or headline is your best chance at getting accepted. But don’t be too clever.
• Make it short. Please! Your description should be a few sentences, and your abstract should be a couple of paragraphs. If you think you need more than that, you need to learn how to write succinctly. Tutorials can be longer.
• Avoid being cute. No puns on programming languages, for example. No matter how funny you think it is, just get to the point. People can appreciate your wit in person.
• Get it right the first time. You can go back and edit it later, but I will not be re-reading and re-voting. If necessary, get a trusted friend to edit your proposal before you submit it.

• Don’t lead off with generic or banal truisms, or set up a “describe the problem, build the suspense, dramatically introduce the solution” dynamic. It doesn’t work. With due respect, this example from last year’s conference is a study in what not to do:

  With the increase complexity of software architecture and database design the amount of data stored in databases systems grows rapidly. Additionally, data security and international regulatory laws require that data changes are audited and restorable to any point of time. The revision engine implements automated auditing of data transparently as a storage engine.

  That proposal wastes the first two sentences stating obvious things, instead of talking about the session itself. It is asking too much of the reader to plow through all of that. The proposal should get to the point: “The Revision Engine automatically saves all old versions of your data…”

• A cool topic cannot save you. You have to demonstrate a clear thought process with a well-written proposal. If your proposal is badly written, I have no choice but to believe that you can’t create and deliver a good talk.

My suggestions from the 2008 year still stand, too:

• I will not give you a favorable vote because you or your employer are famous. Your session proposal has to carry its own weight.
• You need to write a detailed enough proposal to convince me that you’ve put some effort into it. I won’t vote for “accept this talk, and then I’ll fill in the details.” Do the work and take the risk that you won’t get accepted — protecting yourself against rejection is a good way to get a low vote from me.

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The MySQL conference site for 2010 is live, and ready for your proposals. Submit! Submit! Submit!

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