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The 2011 O’Reilly Open Mysql Drizzle Maria Monty Percona Xtra Galera Xeround Tungsten Cloud Database Conference and Expo

Or, for short, the “2011 O’Reilly MySQL Users Conference & Expo”. Yes thats the short name of the conference that, thus far, has brought me nothing but good info, good times, and insight into one of the most interesting open source communities around.

MySQL has been at the core of a real revolution in the way data driven applications have exploded on the internet. Its so easy to just install it, fire up php’s mysql driver, and boom, you’re saving and retrieving data. The *use* of MySQL has always been incredibly simple.

The politics has, at times, been confusing. Read more »

At the MySQL/Percona 2009 Conference

I’m seated in rooms 203/204 of the Santa Clara convention center, listening to Eric Day’s talk on Gearman, a very cool technology for asynchronous distributed job queueing. Anyway, the point is, I’m here at the conference, wandering around. If you see me, come by and say hi. Here’s what I look like today…

Me at the MySQL/Percona conference