Videos in category MySQL

Google Tech TalkApril 19, 2010ABSTRACTPresented by Monty Widenius.MariaDB is a community developed, backward compatible, drop-in replacement branch of the MySQL(R) Database Server. What is MariaDB all about, and what is its future?What can you do with new features added in the first GA release of MariaDB 5.1, such as additional Storage Engines (Maria, PBXT, XtraDB, FederatedX), faster complex q...

Summary Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future. Bio Jason Sobel is an engineering manager on the Infrastructure team at Facebook where he focuses on keeping the site fast and scalable. He helped develop Facebook's multiple datacenter strat...

Summary Adrian Cole discusses his jclouds project, which is an open source library that helps Java developers get started in the cloud and reuse their Java development skills. Cole also talks about some of the challenges of creating a cloud agnostic library, such as the use of different hypervisors and that various cloud implementations are written in different languages, such as VB, Python, Ru...

Summary Ilya Grigorik discusses his company's PostRank algorithm for tracking reader engagement with content. Also: his experience scaling MySQL, Tokyo Cabinet, Ruby HTTP libs, Solr, Amazon EC2 and more. Bio Ilya Grigorik is the founder of AideRSS – a real-time social media engagement monitoring and analytics platform. He has been wrangling with Ruby and cloud computing for over four years, try...

Hosted by Eric David Benari, Organizer of the NYC MySQL GroupDwight is one of the leading engineering minds in the Interactive industry, possessing a particular knack for solving the most complex problems.In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads pe...

It sometimes seems like all domains easily map onto relational database like MySQL and Postgres — that we live in a happy land where all Employees are People, and all People are Mammals. Unfortunately, however, there are many domains that just don't map so easily onto a standard relational schema. In this session, we'll look at three general alternatives to the familiar model, as illustra...

This talk will give you a better idea of what it takes to scale Facebook.From the day that Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 to today, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Today Facebook reaches over 350 million people per month, is the largest PHP site in the World, and has released major pieces o...

In this session, Jeremy Bingham will discuss: Initial problems and bottlenecks at the beginning of the primary election season. How optimizing MySQL and the backend improved performance. How moving to lighttpd and moving page caching into lighttpd with a custom module greatly improved performance. How moving to newer and less hardware improved performance, and how it was done. And how sometimes...

The old OpenDNS Stats system was built when we were doing 1 billion queries a day and had far outlived its usefulness. Playing hot potato with load on overworked servers all struggling to keep up gets old after a while, doesn’t it? This gave me the opportunity to start from a blank slate and build the system we need to serve us at 8 billion queries a day and scale to 16 or 24 billion. We ...

When overnight growth happens (such as when your site gets mentioned on a high traffic site such as Slashdot), it can be overwhelming. Especially because you must take immediate steps to accommodate the surge in traffic. While the front-end is relatively easy to scale-out, it’s squeezing more performance out of the back-end that is often the source of headaches. For MySQL driven websites,...