What is open source, production-quality, supported by a large vibrant community, and comes with full enterprise support ? - GlassFish and MySQL.

Did you know that GlassFish ...

• is the only open-source Java EE 5 compliant Application Server
• can be used to deploy Rails, Grails, and Django applications
• has 13x better price/performance than Dell/HP, and therefore a much lower TCO
• has an easy-to-use and intuitive web-based administration console
• has enterprise features like clustering/high availability, .NET-interoperable Web services, ...

Are you attending MySQL Users Conference 2009 …

What is open source, production-quality, supported by a large vibrant community, and comes with full enterprise support ? - GlassFish and MySQL.

Did you know that GlassFish ...

• is the only open-source Java EE 5 compliant Application Server
• can be used to deploy Rails, Grails, and Django applications
• has 13x better price/performance than Dell/HP, and therefore a much lower TCO
• has an easy-to-use and intuitive web-based administration console
• has enterprise features like clustering/high availability, .NET-interoperable Web services, ...

Are you attending MySQL Users Conference 2009 …

What is open source, production-quality, supported by a large vibrant community, and comes with full enterprise support ? - GlassFish and MySQL.

Did you know that GlassFish ...

• is the only open-source Java EE 5 compliant Application Server
• can be used to deploy Rails, Grails, and Django applications
• has 13x better price/performance than Dell/HP, and therefore a much lower TCO
• has an easy-to-use and intuitive web-based administration console
• has enterprise features like clustering/high availability, .NET-interoperable Web services, ...

Are you attending MySQL Users Conference 2009 …

Follow up from Part 1.

Attended "What Developers should care about MySQL ?" by Colin and "Groovy and Grails" by Chuk-munn Lee.

I enjoyed both the talks for different reasons. Colin's talk explained the pluggable storage engine architecture that is unique to MySQL (pronounced my-ess-kew-ell, not my-sequel). It was interesting to know that the different storage engines can be picked a la carte based upon the requirements. The performance comparison for INSERTs was 5x between MyISAM, InnoDB and Archive storage engines. But then InnoDB provide transactions and other goodies. Multiple performance tuning tips such …

Follow up from Part 1.

Attended "What Developers should care about MySQL ?" by Colin and "Groovy and Grails" by Chuk-munn Lee.

I enjoyed both the talks for different reasons. Colin's talk explained the pluggable storage engine architecture that is unique to MySQL (pronounced my-ess-kew-ell, not my-sequel). It was interesting to know that the different storage engines can be picked a la carte based upon the requirements. The performance comparison for INSERTs was 5x between MyISAM, InnoDB and Archive storage engines. But then InnoDB provide transactions and other goodies. Multiple performance tuning tips such …

The Sun Tech Days Singapore started earlier this morning - over 1100 developers, an outstanding audience!!!

The kick off had a good local flare when the Gods of Longevity, Fortune, and Prosperity (Fu Lu Shou) showed up to start the event ;-) The build up to their appearance was really exciting as evident from the video below:


This particular event will also be recorded in Singapore Book of Records for the largest numbers of Sun developers playing a rattle together :) Here are some pictures from the event:

A Toshiba laptop and an iPod was raffled to …