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.

Ronald Bradford Speaker

Ronald Bradford Principal, 42SQL

Ronald Bradford is a RDBMS industry expert with two decades experience using MySQL, Oracle, and Ingres. He presently provides MySQL and Drizzle consulting in the U.S. and Europe for companies requiring assistance in performance analysis and tuning, Web scalability, higher availability, and for database architecture and design. Ronald has presented at many MySQL events including a number of presentations for Oracle resources. More information is available at http://mysql4oracledba.com. Ronald is co-author of "Expert PHP and MySQL."

Ronald's Talks

The most common MySQL scalability mistakes, and how to avoid them.

Day 1 - 11:00 am

Location: Marble

  • MySQL, Scalabilty

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The most common mistakes are easy to avoid however many startups continue to fall prey, with the impact including large re-design costs, delays in new feature releases, lower staff productivity and less then ideal ROI. All growing and successful sites need to achieve higher Availability, seamless Scalability and proven Resilience. Know the right MySQL environment to provide a suitable architecture and application design to support these essential needs.

Some details of the presentation would include:

  • The different types of accessible data (e.g. R/W, R, none)
  • What limits MySQL availability (e.g software upgrades, blocking statements, locking etc)
  • The three components of scalability - Read Scalability/Write Scalability/Caching
  • Design practices for increasing scalability and not physical resources
  • Disaster is inevitable. Having a tested and functional failover strategy
  • When other products are better (e.g. Static files, Session management via Key/Value store)
  • What a lack of accurate monitoring causes
  • What a lack of breakability testing causes
  • What does "No Downtime" mean to your organization
  • Implementing a successful "failed whale" approach with pre-emptive analysis
  • Identifying when MySQL is not your bottleneck

Program

Sessions

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