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The next keynote is from Marten Mickos, now with Eucalyptus systems, previously CEO of MySQL AB. He’s talking about making LAMP a Cloud. No surprises there, Eucalyptus is the leading open-source cloud computing platforms for on-premise use.

A brief history of MySQL, the first MySQL conference in 2003, Eucalyptus and how the two tie together. It is true that MySQL has been the most common database platform in the cloud. Certainly the other big databases are lagging when it comes to adoption and deployment in the cloud. One comment from Marten that resonates with us at Pythian and others in the MySQL services business – Oracle definitely needs to build out the partner ecosystem around MySQL.

Some good insights from Marten into how the database and software paradigm has evolved from scale-up to scale-out, from closed-source to open-source, from distributions to “Stacks” (eg LAMP) to APIs and interoperability. MySQL has evolved through all of these changes and continues to do so.

Here it is finally – the MySQL conference 2012 starts with the Keynote Sessions.

The first keynote speech is by Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona and a very smart guy and also by Baron Schwartz (Percona), another very smart guy, the brains behind a number of toolkits for MySQL. They’re talking about the MySQL Evolution – what I alluded to in my first post regarding this conference – they ways in which MySQL has grown, evolved, scaled and continues to make new inroads into new applications and industries.

From Peter: “What is most important hasn’t changed – MySQL is still a great piece of technology and it is evolving very rapidly” (Love that quote!) Also “MySQL is also buzzword compatible: NoSQL, BigData”

From Baron: his own personal journey from closed-source, proprietory to open-source and the passion that went with it. I’m sure a lot of us working with/in the open-source community can relate. “Lets be here, Lets be now” He certainly had the audience engaged.

A very well attended Pedro’s dinner – I didn’t count, but we had 9 tables of 8-10 people or so – dare I say almost a 100 people? Lots of beer, margaritas and good conversations! Here are a few pictures from the event

Wow what a lot has changed since the last MySQL conference I blogged about in 2007

MySQL has been acquired twice, once as MySQL by Sun and the second time around bundled with Sun when Oracle bought Sun. The conference is no longer organized by O’Reilly but by Percona. And the MySQL database itself has changed – We were talking about new features in MySQL 5.1, which wasn’t released yet, along with Falcon (where did it go?). 5.1 has long since been released as has 5.5 and we’re now talking about 5.6 instead of 6.0. There was no “Cloud” on the horizon, nor was there MariaDB, XtraDB, Drizzle, Schooner or any of the other offshoots of MySQL, all of which are creating a new buzz around the product.

Yet one thing remains constant – the vibrant community around MySQL. In spite of all the changes in technology, in ownership, in versions, branches, forks and the competitive landscape, core MySQL technology continues to thrive and grow along with the MySQL community as MySQL and its variants are adopted in more and more areas either replacing or working alongside other databases.

The upcoming talks are certainly in the same vein as in 2007 with lots of discussions around large-scale architectures, performance, replication, scaling, sharding – the usual suspects – but more interestingly, there are plenty of talks that go into the whole MySQL ecosystem, which is certainly larger than it was in 2007. New platforms like the Cloud, new tools for troubleshooting, diagnosis, testing and metrics around MySQL, new ways to offload specialized tasks like full text searching and keyvalue stores from MySQL to more efficient tools, specialized versions of MySQL that take full advantage of non-traditional hardware like the cloud or SSDs, tools to enable more efficient replication.. the list is endless.

Definitely lots of excitement in the next couple of days. Stay tuned for more information as I live-blog from the keynotes and the sessions.

If you’re at the conference, please come join us for the MySQL Community Dinner at Pedro’s and meet some of the people behind Pythian. We’re always hiring so if you’re interested, please attend the talks and tutorials being presented by Pythian folk, talk to us or check out the job openings at http://bit.ly/pythianjobs

–Raj.

Very soon, Pythian will be participating in the Percona MySQL Conference taking place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, April 10-12, 2012. We are proud to be presenting along side by so many other respected MySQL practitioners in the industry.
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Pythian organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: The MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members as many of you will be in town for the MySQL Conference that week.

Here are the details:

What: The MySQL community pay-your-own-way dinner
When: Tuesday, April 1oth – Meet us at 6:30 pm on Tuesday in the lobby of the Hyatt Santa Clara, or at 7 pm at Pedro’s (you are welcome to show up later too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
How: Comment on this blog post to add your name to the list of probable attendees

Pedro’s can handle large groups of people, but we would like to have a vague idea of how many people are attending to give Pedro’s and accurate number of attendees so that they can be adequately prepared.

So, if you would like to join us, just leave a comment on this blog post and I’ll add you to the list of attendees:
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Here’s a matrix of all the videos up on YouTube for the 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo. The matrix includes the title, presenter, slide link (if it exists), video link, and link to the official conference detail page, where you can rate the session and provide feedback that the presenter will see. They are grouped mostly by topic, except for the main stage events (keynote, ignite) and interviews.

If there’s a detail missing (ie, slides, or there are other videos you know about), please add a comment so I can make this a complete matrix. Read the rest of this entry . . .

Here’s a sneak peek at a video matrix — this is all the videos that include Pythian Group employees at the MySQL conference. I hope to have all the rest of the videos processed and uploaded within 24 hours, with a matrix similar to the one below (but of course with many more sessions).

Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle, been at Oracle since 1986, technology and architecture decisions, responsible for all open source at Oracle. Company-wide initiatives on standards management and security — http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/public/schedule/detail/12440.

Where MySQL fits within Oracle’s structure.

Oracle’s Strategy: Complete. Open. Integrated. (compare with MySQL’s strategy: Fast, Reliable, Easy to Use).

Most of the $$ spent by companies is not on software, but on integration. So Oracle makes software based on open standards that integrates well.
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I’m looking forward to traveling to San Jose for this year’s MySQL Conference. If there’s anything that can trump the drama of conf two years ago, where we observed how Sun would handle its new property, and then the drama of last year, where we observed how Oracle would handle the pending acquisition, it’s going to be the drama around this one — the first MySQLConf since the Oracle/Sun merger has been finalized and approved.

I think there is some finality to the changing of the guard this time, since there aren’t really that many companies that could conceivably swallow up Oracle itself! (Maybe I shouldn’t say that — next thing you know they’ll spin it off heh.) But regardless, I am looking forward to getting to know Edward Screven and getting a sense from the keynote and other communications exactly what he’s planning to … DO … with MySQL.

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