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Vince Carbone on MySQL and DTrace: Dynamically tracing better performance

By Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana | January 19, 2009

A year ago this past week (on January 16, 2008), Sun Microsystems announced a historic deal to acquire MySQL AB for a billion dollars. Since then, MySQL-ers (aka Sun Dolphins) have settled in with Sun folks. While Sun has had an influence on MySQL, MySQL has also had an influence on several projects within "Sun Classic". Over this week, we hope to explore some of the projects around Sun which use MySQL and how the acquisition has helped bring us all closer together. Today we talk to Vince Carbone in Sun's Performance Technology Group about MySQL with DTrace, the dynamic tracing application that is part of Solaris and OpenSolaris and set to be a hot topic at the 2009 MySQL User Conference.

Interview with Lars Heill, Release Engineering Manager

By Lenz Grimmer | December 18, 2008

Born in Northern Norway 41 years ago and Lars has lived in Trondheim for the last 22 years. He is a Physicist by education, has a master degree on semiconductor heterojunctures and has earned a PhD on high temperature superconductors. He worked briefly on nuclear power fuel optimization and petroleum related rock mechanics before joining Clustra in the year 2000, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Clustra was a database software vendor that specialized in clustered, high-availability databases that were required by telecoms and service providers.

Interview with Masood Mortazavi, MySQL Engineering Manager at Sun

By Lenz Grimmer | December 17, 2008

Masood Mortazavi is an Engineering Manager at the Sun Database Group. After the acquisition of MySQL, and along with the rest of Sun's original database technology group, he joined the MySQL organization to form the larger Sun Database Group. In this interview, Masood talks with Lenz about the flexibility and diversity of Sun as a workplace, his life prior to joining Sun and his current assignment to improve the MySQL code contribution process.

Interview with Stewart Smith, Drizzle/MySQL Cluster

By Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, MySQL | December 17, 2008

Stewart Smith, a former member of the MySQL Cluster team recently decided to move on and work as a programmer on the Drizzle project. We wanted to catch with Stewart on both MySQL Cluster on Windows and what's he up to now.

Interview with Alexander "Salle" Keremidarski, 2008

By Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana | December 9, 2008

Alexander "Salle" Keremidarski works as the Manager of EMEA Support for MySQL and is one of MySQL's longest serving employees. This isn't Salle's first interview on the Devzone, but seeing as how it's been a couple of years, we thought we'd catch up with Salle and see how things are going.

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