Percona has announced Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012.
Kudos for their vision and entrepreneurship. I have seen comments
praising their commitment to the community and their willingness
to filling a void. I have to dot a few i's and cross some t's on
this matter.
That was not the only game in town.By the end of June, there were
strong clues that O'Reilly was not going to organize a
conference. The question of who could fill the void started to
pop up. The MySQL Council started exploring the options for a
community-driven conference to replace the missing one. The
general plan was along the lines of "let's see who is in, and
eventually run a conference without the big organizer. If nobody
steps up, the IOUG can offer a venue in Las Vegas for an
independent MySQL conference". The plan required general …
fisl12 is likely the largest free and open source software event in Latin America. This year, it takes place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from June 29th to July 2nd. Oracle is a gold sponsor of the event and I will attend it as a speaker. I feel honoured and excited to be there – for me it will be the first visit to the South American continent.
They already have over 3000 registered attendees, so this definitely is going to be a great conference. There is quite a number of well-known names on the speaker roster and I look forward to meeting a lot of familar faces there.
The agenda is still under development but quite impressive already – …
[Read more]It's been a while since my last post on this blog; I definitely need to get back into the habit! One of the reasons for my radio silence was that I switched roles here at Oracle. After having been with the MySQL team for 9 years, I felt it was time for a change. Fortunately I did not have to look far – I'm now a member of the Oracle Linux product management team and I am having a lot of fun there.
However, I realized that while I was an active Linux user on the desktop, quite a lot has happened on the enterprise and data center side of things. Linux has really come a long way and I am glad to be back in this field, drinking from the firehose and learning a lot about recent developments and technologies. For me, this is kind of going "back to my roots", as I have been deeply involved with Linux at SuSE before I joined MySQL in 2002.
Anyway, I'm still alive and you can expect …
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Last week I was at LinuxTag in Berlin. It was a great event. This
time it was my second year there. I really enjoyed the first year
and so I did this time as well. I spoke to many people, learned
new interesting stuff and my todo list got again somehow longer
And I believe that I also showed some interesting stuff to the
people at our booth. I was speaking about GNOME Shell to anybody
who happened to be nearby and everybody liked it! Good work,
GNOME guys!
I’m glad I was able to be there and I want to share few pictures
from the event with you, so even if you couldn’t make it there,
you’ll see at least a little bit of what we were doing. We had a
lot of fun
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The Open
Database Camp 2011 opens today with the Welcome
Party, starting today at 7pm CEST. The party (with good
Italian food and drinks) is open to all the ones who have
registered in the Attendees list. By car you have to reach Pula, take Via Nora (Nora Street), than Via Sant'Efisio (Sant'Efisio Street), until the end, directly to the party location. Organisers will also make a bus available on Friday 6 May, leaving from Pula Hotels (Nora Club Hotel - Villa Madau - Baia Di Nora - Is Molas - Marin Hotel - Is Morus Hotel) around 18:30 and reaching Nora. From Nora back to Pula Hotels … |
Linuxtag is likely one of the oldest and largest Linux/OSS events in Germany. I remember having been there to represent SuSE Linux while it still took place at the University of Kaiserslautern, using tables and chairs from the lecture rooms as exhibition stands (this must have been around 1998 or 1999). This year it will take place in Berlin again, and the session schedule looks very promising. I'll be there from Wednesday till Friday and I feel that I will have a hard time deciding which presentations I should attend...
I'll be speaking about What's new in MySQL 5.5 on Friday, 13th of May, at 15:00. If you haven't updated to MySQL 5.5 yet, stop by to hear what new …
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The Open
Database Camp 2011 is near. In 9 days, the welcome
party starts, and then the conference itself gets
going. If you are coming earlier than Friday, May 6th, you can either use public transportation or book a private seat with a volunteer in the car pooling page. Please help the organizers: post your arrival and departure dates and times, so we may be able to help you even outside the official conference days. About the conference itself, as everyone should know, it's a … |
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After the opening keynote at the MySQL Conference, there was
the usual ceremony of the MySQL community awards. Since
Oracle declined to continue in the MySQL AB tradition of
awarding the contributions from the community, the community
itself has taken over. I was pleasantly surprised to find my name among the recipients, and even more about the prize awarded to my company's product, the Tungsten Replicator. The surprise comes because we have been making noise about this product for only a few months, after we finalized our plans to split the company products between open source and enterprise. Apparently, it has been the right kind of noise, … |
The slides from my talk on tuesday at the MySQL Users Conference
2011 on "Large Datasets on Amazon EC2" are available for download
here.
I also want to thank everyone coming to my talk, as well as to
the people arranging the conference and make it happen, and to
all the sponsors. This conference is a blast, as usual!
/Karlsson
And I mean that, come see me, say hello, buy me a beer (extra
points!). Or even more so, come see my session at 10:50 on
tuesday morning April 12. I'll be speaking on how to manage large
datasets in an Amazon EC2 environment, and this is largely based
on my experiences at doing just that at my new job (or new, I've
been doing it for more that 6 months now) as Database Architect
at Recorded Future.
This will not be an incredibly technical presentation, in terms
of showing actual code and things. Rather, I will look at some of
the issues when running in an EC2 environment, and how we manage
it here at Recorded Future. Also, I will present a bit of how our
architecture works, which is more relevant that one may thinks,
as we have Cloud based architectures on mind all the time, all
our development, testing and productions servers run in the
cloud.
Anyway, this is …