Notes from CentraLUG, 6-Dec-2010: David Berube, MySQL Operations
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Thu Dec 30 11:04:32 EST 2010
Six people attended the December 2010 meeting of the Central New
Hampshire Linux Group, held at the New Hampshire Technical Institute‘s
Library from 7 to 9 PM. David Berube was the featured speaker, talking
about his experience with large scale high-performance MySQL applications.
David is an independent software developer and consultant. One of his
larger projects over the past couple of years has been an application
for scheduling actors for auditions. This involves agents and projects,
auditions, roles, videos and a number of other entities in a complex and
fast-moving application. He’s used Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, a NOSQL
database, Amazon S3, A rack of Mac Minis, BSD, Linux, and a number of
other elements. He had some insightful things to say about the
development process, managing a client project, handling difficult
requirements, scaling up million-row databases for sub-second response
times and more. It was a meeting well worth attending.
There were a lot of useful tools and reference sites mentioned, and I
was only able to take note of a few: Useful Ruby add-ons: New Relic,
Query Reviewer, Percona Operations Day, Cacti for data aggregation. An
In-depth discussion of NoSQL (“Not Only SQL”) Databases: what are they,
what are they good for, what are the liabilities? A good discussion of
the trade-offs of using NoSQL, reference to the NHRuby presentation on
Redis a few months ago, and more.
Thanks to David for an informative presentation, to the attendees for a
dynamic interactive session, and to the NHTI Library for the facilities.
Future meetings at the Concord location have been suspended, we
encourage our regulars to attend the Manchester ManchLUG meetings. If
you haven’t already, consider subscribing to the announcement list so
you’ll know when there’s an upcoming meeting. (Subscribers to the
discussion list will automatically receive the announcements, too.)
Links to many of the resources can be found at
http://blog.tedroche.com/?p=3597
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