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Cloud Computing with MySQL and Kettle: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - ...

By Matt Casters

This presentation explores what cloud computing means beyond being a buzz-word and touches upon the various scenarios where MySQL and Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) can be deployed on a large number of hosts to process data in parallel.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

State of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 2: The Technologies - O'Reilly ...

By Mike Hendrickson

In this second installment (the first post is found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six

[Publish Date: February 17, 2009]

Speaker: Chander Kant: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Chander is the CEO and founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he did research work in Database Management Systems) and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: MC Brown: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Martin MC Brown is a Technical Writer for the MySQL team within Sun Microsystems, but spends a lot of his time working with and advising different teams within MySQL on the architecture, implementation and end-user experience of MySQL. He draws on a wide experience of database and application development and large scale deployment of technology in grids and distributed computing environments involving hundreds or thousands of computers working in harmony. Today he spends most of his time developing large scale solutions, techniques for better performance monitoring or writing about it to educate other people.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

The ScaleDB Storage Engine: Enabling High Performance and Scalability Using ...

By Moshe Shadmon

ScaleDB storage engine delivers high performance transaction processing capability with row level locking and multi-node concurrency control. It enhances performance through innovative indexing technology and delivers low cost computing with a Shared Disk architecture. When applications demand more computing power, additional servers are added to the cluster to scale the system capacity.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: Mok Oh: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 19 - ...

Mok Oh is the founder and CTO of EveryScape Inc. He has over 15 years of experience in software development and R&D;, and is responsible for product and technology development, functioning as software architect, visionary, and leading intellectual property development. He holds multiple patents and publications in computer graphics, image and photo editing algorithms and tools, and 3D mapping technologies. His research and development further spans into Web 2.0 technologies, UI, 3D modeling and rendering algorithms, interactive tools, and photography. He is an invited speaker at multiple venues, such as MIT Lecture Series, Harvard School of Architecture, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, and internationally in various universities in South Korea and in the Asia-Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Speaker: Barry Leslie: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Barry Leslie is a core developer of the *PrimeBase BLOB Streaming* engine and cofounder of SNAP Innovation GmbH, Germany, where he is a senior developer in core technology. He has 20 years of software development experience. Barry has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and a Bachelor of Technology in Industrial Engineering from Ryerson University Toronto.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: Lew Tucker: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Lew Tucker is Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His focus today is on the evolution of computing as it moves into the cloud, but his contributions span several waves of technology innovation over the last twenty years. Prior to re-joining Sun Microsystems, he was a Vice President at Salesforce.com where he created the AppExchange, advancing the company's strategy to become the leading SaaS platform for business applications. He went on to be CTO at Radar Networks, an innovative semantic-web based Internet service for tracking interests. During his previous tenure at Sun Microsystems, Tucker was an early member of the JavaSoft executive team at Sun driving developer adoption of the Java platform, and later became Vice President, Internet Services, with overall responsibility for Sun's Internet sites and services. Tucker's interest in distributed computing started in the mid 80’s as a research scientist and Director of advanced development at...

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: Doug Judd: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, ...

Doug has over a decade of software engineering experience in the area of distributed computing and information retrieval. He joined Inktomi's Web Search division in 1997 where he held both engineering and management positions. During his five year tenure, he designed and developed large-scale distributed systems, including significant pieces of the crawling and indexing software. Doug later joined Kosmix, Inc., where he built a distributed web crawler and scaled it to a billion documents. Earlier in his career he worked as an engineer at Verity, helping to develop VDK, the core developer toolkit. Doug currently holds the position of Principal Search Architect at Zvents, Inc., a local search engine. His primary responsibility is to lead the development of Hypertable, a next generation, high performance, scalable, database. Doug earned a B.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1992 and holds four patents in search technology.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Speaker: Calvin Sun: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Calvin Sun is a principle software engineer at the InnoDB group of Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, he was the development manager of storage engines at MySQL. He has over ten years of database internals experience at Pervasive Software, MySQL and now Oracle. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: Vijay Karamcheti: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly ...

Vijay Karamcheti is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Virident Systems, and an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Before starting Virident, Vijay spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Scientist at Google working closely with their core system infrastructure group.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]