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. Continue reading →