Yesterday, Tokutek was invited (thanks to David Hughson, Vice-Consul of the British Consulate) to the Massachusetts State House for a forum on international business, hosted by Governor Deval Patrick. I felt pretty good about our Commonwealth – apparently we are the only state whose bond rating has improved since 2007. And, even though big firms like Google, Microsoft and IBM have headquarters elsewhere, it’s their MA offices that are their fastest growing ones. We also get along well with European tech centers. Despite some unpleasantness for a brief period in the past, the UK is the number one country for Massachusetts exports and 250 Massachusetts companies have operations there. I was happy to hear this, given all the expertise we see in MySQL in the UK.
One thing that makes Boston (and really the Northeast) unique is culture. Governor Patrick mentioned one traditional example of this. He’s originally from the Midwest. In the Midwest, when you are new in town, everyone brings you a pie as a welcome. In New England, it’s different. You are expected to bring the pie.
This got me thinking… haven’t we seen this before? Think back to your history with MySQL and InnoDB. You might have had to to get trained on tuning parameters. You also might have had to find time to do dump and reloads as the data aged and fragmented. You’ve possibly considered buying more RAM as the database grows. Maybe you’ve even had to to wait until off hours to make changes to schema, such as adding new indexes or adding columns. That’s possibly a lot of pie you’ve had to make for your MySQL.
Well, as a native New Englander, I’m here to tell you — stop making all that pie! After all, a database is supposed to serve you, and not the other way around, right? With Tokutek, we’ll bring the pie, and you can move to more important things (like maybe watching those Bruins….).
