| 8:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Introductions
Eric David Benari (Vork PHP Framework) |
| 9:05 AM | Keynote Address: State of the MySQL Ecosystem Peter Zaitsev (Percona) |
| 9:30 AM | Keynote Address: Why SQL Wins A
look at the state of current database architectures and trends through a
historical perspective. The talk explores why NoSQL is not the answer
to our current problems, and outlines why we should not throw away
decades of relational database research and development.»
Paul Mikesell (Clustrix) Sergei Tsarev (Clustrix) Dmitri Mikhailov (TheLadders) |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM | Running an E-Commerce Database In The Cloud ideeli
is one of the first companies to build a large-scale Web application on
the Ruby on Rails platform, and pioneered many scaling techniques that
are now common practice. The application handles an unusual and
demanding load pattern, with large and sudden spikes in traffic. And it
is hosted entirely in the AWS cloud hosting environment. Two of
ideeli's lead engineers will discuss the realities of running a busy
OLTP database in the cloud.»
Aaron Brown (ideeli) Mark Uhrmacher (ideeli) | Migrating From MyISAM to InnoDB In
recent releases of MySQL the default storage engine for MySQL has
switched from MyISAM to InnoDB. How will this change impact you? Will
your application continue to work? Should you move all your MyISAM
tables to InnoDB? Matt Yonkovit explains where to spend your time and
energy if you're considering a migration.»
Matt Yonkovit (Percona) | The SkySQL Reference Architecture: Simplicity in the MySQL Ecosystem The
SkySQL Reference Architecture offers users a logical framework for
organizing IT systems around the MySQL and MariaDB databases. It is
aimed at reducing the complexity of many of the most common data
infrastructure applications for high availability, Web scalability, data
warehousing/business intelligence, and the cloud.»
Ivan Zoratti (SkySQL) | Breaking Down Query Latency With DTrace There
have been many high-level talks about how to use MySQL and DTrace
together, but very little technical detail. This talk will show you how
to instrument MySQL and InnoDB internals at a very deep level, using
filesystem operation latency as a key example. Other topics will
include tracing InnoDB's thread concurrency code.»
Brendan Gregg (Joyent) |
| 11:00 AM | MySQL High Availability With Pacemaker Have
you been unhappy with the high-availability solutions for MySQL that
are based on replication? At Percona, we have seen a number of problems
with existing tools. Some people discussed using Heartbeat and
Pacemaker instead, but the implementations were not suitable for the
problems they tried to solve. Yves recently had an insight into a
different approach to the problem, which can provide high availability,
load balancing, and read-write splitting in one elegant solution.»
Yves Trudeau (Percona) | Optimizing MySQL for Solid State Storage Are
you using solid state storage for your MySQL database? Many people
have installed SSDs, but they aren't truly using the storage to its full
power. Vadim explains why solid-state storage is different and how to
purchase and configure an SSD-based or PCI-E based storage solution for a
high-performance database server.»
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona) | MySQL & PHP Frameworks: Variations, Implications and Gotchas! This
talk explains the various MySQL usage mechanisms for PHP frameworks
including CakePHP, Zend Framework, and Vork. It overviews how each
framework impacts factors such as database scalability, performance,
query optimization, and handling multiple connections.»
Raja Kapur (UrbanDaddy) | Drizzle 7, GA and Supported: Current & Future Features Stewart
explains the architecture that has evolved to culminate in the Drizzle 7
GA release. He discusses the future architectural direction of the
Drizzle database and how this will enable Drizzle to be used as an
application infrastructure component, not just a database server.»
Stewart Smith (Percona) |
| 11:30 AM | Break |
| 11:45 AM | What's New In MariaDB Kurt
will discuss the progress in current and upcoming versions of MariaDB.
MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement
functionality for MySQL. MariaDB is built by some of the original
authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of Free and
open source software developers. In addition to the core functionality
of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including
alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches.»
Kurt von Finck (Monty Program) | Putting Analytics in Big Data Analysis Growing
data and economics has produced new ways to structure and store
incredibly large volumes of data with Apache Hadoop, but for most
companies, Hadoop is only part of a data pyramid. The pyramid usually
has a tier of raw data in Hadoop; a tier in traditional datamarts; and a
tier residing in memory. This session will present the Pentaho for
Hadoop solution, which integrates Pentaho Data Integration (also known
as Kettle) with Hadoop and Hive to bring ETL, data warehousing and BI
applications to the tasks of analyzing Big Data. The session will
include a demonstration.»
Will Gorman | MySQL Replication Alternatives: Pros & Cons MySQL
replication options include built-in MySQL replication (asynchronous,
semi-synchronous, synchronous), external tools (GoldenGate, Continuent),
and block-level such as DRBD. The more synchronous the method, the
better the consistency and reliability, at the cost of inflexibility.
Block-level replication offers the best chance for no data-loss, at the
cost of unavailability during recovery. WAN replication requires
different architectures due to network latency. This educational
session presents benchmarks across parameters such as workload,
read/write ratio, response time, consistency, fail-over, service
continuity, throughput, network and cluster size. It will help capture
the right system and MySQL metrics in order to understand a workload and
its behavior during replication. Users will be able to run the
benchmarks independently to determine how their workload behaves in
their own environment.»
Darpan Dinker (Schooner Info. Tech.) | Designing Linearly Scalable Multi-Site MySQL Applications Verizon
Wireless (VZW) always focuses on providing the best experience to its
large and important customer base. The key mission-critical applications
at VZW are designed to have a highly scalable and highly redundant
architecture to ensure business continuity at all times. To accomplish
this the IT team at VZW tailors vendor technologies to fit their
architecture, and have a multi-site architecture. We have designed
multiple applications on various technology platforms, such as Oracle,
Sun, and MySQL to meet five 9's SLA goals. This talk focuses on how we
designed a horizontally and vertically scalable platform for a platform
that provides services such as social networking, blogging, and live
streaming. We used MySQL for this and incorporated it into our
multi-site architecture model.»
Shivinder Singh (Verizon) Jordan Sebastian (Verizon) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Measuring Scalability and Performance With TCP What
if you had all the data you needed to measure system performance and
scalability at any tier, discover performance and stability problems
before they happen, and plan for capacity by modeling the system's
behavior at greater load than you currently have? Now it is as easy as
running tcpdump and processing the result with a tool. In this talk you
will learn a quick overview of mathematical scaling models, how the
inputs can be derived from observing query start and completion times,
and how the mk-tcp-model tool from Maatkit can transform tcpdump output
into the inputs you will need for tools such as Aspersa's usl tool for
applying the Universal Scalability Model.»
Baron Schwartz (Percona) | Improving Performance with Better Indexes Learn
how to use one simple advanced technique to make better MySQL indexes
and improve your queries by 500% or more. Even with a highly indexed
schema significant improvements in performance can be achieved by
creating better indexes. This presentation introduces the approach for
correct identification and verification of problem SQL statements and
then describes the means of identifying index choices for optimization.
Then discussed is not only how to apply indexes to improve query
performance, but how to apply better indexes and provide even greater
performance gains.»
Ronald Bradford (Effective MySQL) | Renormalize: Solving Performance Problems in MySQL Without Denormalization Users
often denormalize complex schemas for performance, using techniques
such as materialized views and using MySQL as a key-value store for
blobs. The gains come at a high cost. In this presentation Ori will
explore techniques and tradeoffs with real-world examples. He will then
present a more efficient solution under development at Akiban that gives
the best of both worlds without denormalization. Topics covered in
detail include the why and how of denormalization, the problems it
solves and creates, and the technical details of how Akiban's table
grouping technique works.»
| MySQL DBA Tools and Tricks Gennady
will show the tools that he's used and created to do his job more
efficiently over the years while working at Vonage Network, Hearst
Digital, and TheLadders. He will talk about managing large numbers of
servers: he has managed over 300 simultaneously at some employers. For
example, he will discuss keeping on top of table growth and finding
inefficiencies across many servers.»
Gennady Gurov (The Ladders) |
| 2:15 PM | High Performance Near Real Time Analytics with Columnar Databases and MySQL
Graham Toppin (Infobright) | Preventing MySQL Emergencies Everyone
wants to prevent database downtime by being proactive, but how
effective are the common measures such as inspecting logs and analyzing
SQL? To be truly proactive, one must prevent problems, which requires
studying and understanding the reasons for downtime. We have analyzed a
selection of emergency issues that we have solved, to better understand
what types of problems really occur in production environments. The
results are somewhat surprising and will be detailed in this talk. This
presentation will be valuable for the seasoned MySQL DBA, DBAs new to
MySQL, as well as to operational managers/directors and CTOs responsible
for business critical MySQL implementations.»
Espen Braekken (Percona) | Full-Text Search with Sphinx and MySQL Sphinx
provides not only lighting-fast search performance, but can offload
other tasks from your database server. We'll cover the following topics:
1) Using Sphinx easily from many programming languages via its support
for MySQL protocol and SphinxQL; 2) Unique optimizations that allow it
to handle non-search tasks better than MySQL; 3) Case studies of
applications using MySQL vs Sphinx.»
Vladimir Fedorkov (Sphinx) | Building Blocks of Scaling: Using Drizzle/MySQL, Memcached, Sphinx, and Gearman Learn
how to combine key open-source technologies to scale applications
through replication, caching, full-text search, and a work queue. This
presentation will demonstrate a real application that uses all of these
components to scale out in the cloud by breaking functionality into
smaller units of computing, which work as a single system across any
number of servers and provide the ability to easily expand.»
Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko) |
| 2:45 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM | Using Percona XtraBackup This
presentation will cover tasks such as creating backups, setting up
slaves, and copying InnoDB tables between servers. These features can
greatly simplify day-to-day maintenance and operation of your database.
Learn how to tap into the power and features of XtraBackup!»
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona) | What's New In MySQL Cluster 7.2 MySQL
Cluster (NDB cluster) continues to improve in features and performance.
Is NDB Cluster a good choice for you? It is becoming more
general-purpose and less specialized, and some of its new features are
hugely beneficial for common use cases. Learn what is new in the 7.2
releases of MySQL Cluster, and what this means for your application.»
Yves Trudeau (Percona) | Jailbreaking MySQL Replication This
talk discusses the challenges of high transaction loads, geographic
separation, integration with other DBMS stores, and increasingly high
fault tolerance requirements. It shows how we can solve them by
extending the MySQL DBMS and its replication capabilities. Robert uses
the open-source Tungsten Replicator software with simple UDFs in
combination with Percona server to solve today's big problems now. The
result is not just making current MySQL replication more capable, but
also making it relevant again to users by answering a new set of
requirements.»
Robert Hodges (Continuent | Efficiently Monitoring MySQL with Nagios There
are many Nagios plugins for MySQL, but Sheeri Cabral's optimize
statistics gathering, so that adding variable checks does not add a
linear amount of database stress. This session will walk you through how
to use and extend this set of Nagios plugins to more effectively
monitor your MySQL instance.»
Sheeri Cabral (PalominoDB) |
| 3:30 PM | How NoSQL Complements MySQL A
relational database used to be the answer for almost every project that
required data storage. A few years ago, that changed. The increased
visibility and features in NoSQL solutions have driven many companies to
think about, test, and implement some form of NoSQL technology in their
stacks. Even MySQL itself offers NoSQL interfaces to underlying tables
now. I will discuss how and why this happened, and show good use cases I
have seen running around in the wild.»
Matt Yonkovit (Percona) | How ONEsite uses Fusion-io Drives ONEsite
supports some of the largest media properties on the planet, with
social networking and web operations for the likes of Univision, NASCAR,
CAPCOM, and The NBA. They needed the best performance possible, so
they turned to Percona for recommended improvements in their MySQL
infrastructure. Percona led ONEsite.com to Fusion-io, and together the
companies reduced backup times from 12 hours down to 80 minutes, along
with a 15-to-1 ratio of server consolidation. This session will cover
how ONEsite.com began their MySQL performance assessment, the options
they considered, and how they successfully deployed a solution with
Percona and Fusion-io.»
Mike Benshoof (ONEsite) | Zero-Downtime MySQL Backups with Zmanda Increasing
numbers of large MySQL applications, e.g. social networking back-ends,
use a distributed MySQL architecture. Backing up such large and dynamic
environments is complex. Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL reins in this
complexity by providing a unified framework and UI to manage multiple
MySQL databases with different backup capabilities, including
XtraBackup, storage level snapshots, and log-level incremental backups.
In this presentation, we will provide a summary of various backup
methods available today and their trade-offs, and go over best practices
based on experiences of hundreds of MySQL DBAs from around the world.»
Chander Kant (Zmanda) | Migrating From PostgreSQL to MySQL Without Downtime Etsy.com
is migrating from PostgreSQL to MySQL, but that's not the point. This
talk is exclusively about how they're making the switch, from an
engineering perspective. How does a high-traffic site change the wings
while the plane is still in the air? Come find out, from one of the
engineers who's actually making it happen.»
Matthew Graham (Etsy) |
| 4:15 PM | Improvements in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 MySQL
5.5 and 5.6 include many great improvements to the database server,
from the Performance Schema to multi-threaded replication. Peter will
go beyond merely explaining what they are and what they do. He'll tell
you what the new features are actually going to help you with, and help
you understand when to use them and when not to.»
Peter Zaitsev (Percona) | How Drizzle Does Everything You've Always Wanted It To Drizzle
fixes a lot of things that MySQL does in strange ways. It also does a
lot of things you always wished MySQL could do. How does Drizzle
improve so much over MySQL? Come find out from one of the core
developers who's made it happen.»
Monty Taylor (Drizzle) | Tuning For Speed: Percona Server and Fusion-io This
presentation will focus on achieving performance, reliability, and
predictability when tuning Fusion's ioDrives in conjunction with Percona
Server 5.1. From basic tuning, to Linux details, to MySQL specifics, we
will cover everything you need to know to optimize your database
configurations.»
Torben Mathiasen (Fusion-io) | Hybrid Applications Using mongoDB and MySQL MongoDB
and MySQL are both commonly used in web applications. It is often
unclear when to use one or the other, or if a combination is really
ideal. During this talk, we will discuss the ideal use cases for each,
and how they can be used in conjunction. »
Kristina Chodorow (10gen/mongoDB) |
| 5:00 PM | Keynote Address: MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future Harrison
discusses how Facebook uses MySQL now, what challenges face the world's
largest MySQL user, how they've solved many of them, and what remains.
Facebook's MySQL deployment is notable not only for its size, but also
for how openly Facebook shares the details about their deployment.
Don't miss this talk.»
Harrison Fisk (Facebook) |
| 5:40 PM | Closing Remarks
Baron Schwartz (Percona) |
| 5:45 PM | Wrap-Up and Walk To Evening Event |
| 6:00 PM | Evening event at Mickey Mantle's
Restaurant and Sports Bar from 6PM until 8PM, sponsored by Clustrix. No
registration required - walk-ins welcome. Win great books and prizes
from our sponsors, including an Unlimited Gold MySQL Support contract
from Percona, a $15,000 value! See the venue page for directions.
Sponsored by Clustrix |
