twittering on 2011-04-14

  • RT @planetpostgres: Bruce Momjian: MySQLCon Keynote Video Now Online http://postgr.es/p/11j #
  • Slides for talk #2 at #mysqlconf at 4:25pm: Own it: working with a changing open source community http://slidesha.re/dQ8rl2 #forbiz #
  • Slides for talk 1 at #mysqlconf Weds at 11:55am – Managing terabytes: When PostgreSQL gets big http://slidesha.re/h4hLWc #
  • "please don't use the conference network for bittorrent." #lulz #mysqlconf #
  • Tons of work has been done on creating free MySQL/MariaDB documentation http://kb.askmonty.org/ #mysqlconf #
  • #protip on documentation: Wikipedia crushed Encarta http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/microsoft-encarta-to-close/ #mysqlconf #
  • MariaDB: forsch or brock? #mysqlconf #
  • Mรฅrten Mickos up on stage. Shout out to EnterpriseDB. ๐Ÿ™‚ #mysqlconf #
  • Oracle came to MySQL AB in November 2005 #mysqlconf #
  • lol! http://salaryshare.me/ #
  • Took a picture ofo the drizzle architecture, but phone crashed. modular design enabling rapid feature dev. -@brianaker #mysqlconf #
  • libDrizzle is BSD licensed "lawyer free" #mysqlconf #
  • "Database is an operating system we don't have to write sound drivers for." -@brianaker #mysqlconf #
  • "All our devs got hired up at other companies." #fossjobsrule #drizzle #
  • cool! there's a brew recipe for gearman #osx #mysqlconf #
  • Up to five volunteers for #pdx11 site updates ๐Ÿ™‚ yay for Portland software community volunteerism. #
  • someone have a VGA adapter for a macbookpro I could borrow in like 15 minutes? #mysqlconf #
  • Ooh. Got two ๐Ÿ™‚ #mysqlconf #
  • in @andyparson's War Stories talk about adventures in the cloud #mysqlconf #
  • Don't trust expensive hardware in datacenters #mysqlconf #
  • and @andyparsons talking about work on outside.in and just mentioned obikosh, a stealth startup out of NYC (more this summer!) #mysqlconf #
  • I/O on EC2 is massively unpredictable, but PostgreSQL + EC2 works! -@andyparsons #mysqlconf #
  • outside.in is now part of AOL's Patch and chose Postgres for PostGIS and ran in the cloud #mysqlconf #
  • outside.in used Solr as a document store, not just an index of data stored elsewhere #mysqlconf #
  • outside.in started w TIGER data & put into PostGIS but had to mod data to fit hyperlocal sense of neighborhood #mysqlconf #othersideoftracks #
  • had to stop doing realtime queries on geo data at 300 requests per second :/ #mysqlconf #
  • Postgres is highly dependent on warm OS caches #mysqlconf #
  • really good operational information from @andyparsons talk on #postgres with outside.in #mysqlconf #
  • preview of obikosh architecture: postgres/mongodb/lucene data stack, pg9.0 and dedicated instances in the cloud #mysqlconf #
  • About to give a talk about open source community in room H #mysqlconf #
  • Awesome chat earlier today with @devananda about checkpoints and background writer in MySQL. Thanks! #
  • Just posted my slides for two talks today at #mysqlconf http://chesnok.com/u/1C #