April talks at Percona and SkySQL events

The second week of April will be quite a busy one

Tuesday, April 10

April 10th is Tutorial day at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo.

On that day, I will present a classic: MySQL Replication 101. This is a topic traditionally presented by a MySQL engineer. However, since Oracle seems not to be eager to send anyone to the conference, I volunteered to the task, and I have let everyone know that, if Oracle change its mind and sends some engineers at the conference, I will happily have one of my former colleagues from the replication team as co-speaker.

Wednesday, April 11

The conference will be in full swing when the regular sessions (and the keynotes!) start. From my side, it is noteworthy the talk about Continuent crown jewels, which I have mentioned recently.

• Edward Archibald : Building a multi-master, multi-region database infrastructure in Amazon EC2

Next on the same day, two of my colleagues will take the podium before it's my turn again.

• Robert Hodges: Be a Data Management Hero with Good Backups!
• Jeff Mace : Build simple and complex replication clusters with Tungsten Replicator
• Giuseppe Maxia: What's new in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 Replication (another talk where an Oracle engineer co-speaker is welcome!)

Unfortunately, at the same time, there will be a talk that I will miss, but I would love to see:

• Jeff Malek: Building a High-Volume Reporting System on Amazon using MySQL, Tungsten, and Vertica

After my own talk, I will instead go to see

• Tim Callaghan: Creating a benchmark infrastructure that just works

It is not over yet. After the regular schedule, there will be Lightning Talks during the Community Networking Reception.

Thursday, April 12

We will start with two interesting keynotes:

• Mårten Mickos: Making LAMP a Cloud
• Mark Callaghen: What Comes Next

The sessions will start with

• Marco Tusa: Oracle to MySQL migration

Another tough choice in the afternoon. I will be on stage while my colleagues will present on yet another cool technology that I have tested extensively in the past months.

• Giuseppe Maxia: Testing MySQL creatively in a sandbox
• Robert Hodges and Stephane Giron: Testing MySQL creatively in a sandbox Boost Your Replication Throughput with Parallel Apply, Prefetch, and Batching

I will then try to learn something new with

• Jeremy Cole: Gizzard: Scale with Twitter's MySQL sharding framework

Friday, April 13th

This day brings us the MySQL Solutions day sponsored and organized by SkySQL. I will be on stage with Robert Hodges to talk and demo some of the solutions offered by Continuent.