MySQL Conference: The Week After

Wow... I had a great time at the annual MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara.

Highlights:

• Received my CMDBA designation. Woohoo!
• Sun announced the possibility of an open source mobile phone;
• All day mysql proxy tutorial with Jan Kneschke and Giuseppe Maxia;
• Amazon's Power of Infrastructure as a Service - great premise; glitches remain;
• Great food and a nifty side trip to Santa Cruz;
  
• MySQL Workbench - nifty tool for database development;
• Use multiple sockets to run queries in parallel to speed up web pages (from Digg.com);
• Best Keynote: Who is the Dick on My Site? by Dick Hardt
• A chant that Marty Widenus required us to repeat regarding MySQL's development future: "We don't want crippleware";
• Discovered how Fickr scaled heavy concurrent writes in real time;
• Intriguing discussion panel on database warehousing: Sun/MySQL, Kickfire, Infobright, NitroSecurity, and a data warehouse contractor;
• Chocolate covered strawberries and ice cream goodies at the exhibit hall.
  

I hope to be more of a responsible blogger and share some very insightful ideas to those of you who were not able to make it to the conference.

Until next time,
David