Surge — A Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI.

Surge 2010 Keynote & Speaker List

Discussing Scalability Matters…

…because scalability matters. Surge is more than an event, it's a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.

Baron Schwartz Speaker
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Baron Schwartz VP of Consulting, Percona

Baron Schwartz is an expert on MySQL and LAMP performance and scalability. He's the Vice President of Consulting at Percona, where he helps customers architect and build some of the largest LAMP applications around. He is the lead author of High Performance MySQL. He has created several popular open-source software projects, including Maatkit. He posts regularly on the MySQL Performance Blog and the Xaprb blog.

Baron's Talks

Why Some Architects Almost Never Shard Their Applications

Day 2 - 4:00 pm

Location: Corinthian

  • Scalability
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"Shard early, shard often" is common advice -- and it's often wrong. In reality, many systems don't have to be sharded. Sharding is a strategy that should be understood in its context: as one of the many legitimate choices. This session covers a spectrum of strategies for scaling an application. It gives special coverage to topics that typically force sharding, such as write workload, choice of database technology, and choice of deployment platform. You'll learn the pros and cons of various strategies, and how to avoid the pitfalls and capitalize on the upsides.

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