Weekly tweet digest for 2011-04-17

  • I have it pretty good. #
  • Leaving sfo for downtown #
  • Greeks in SF http://flic.kr/p/9xy6bb #
  • Punch is coming http://flic.kr/p/9xAxin #
  • so much fun with @tilgovi and @mikeal last night. Now prepping for my talks. #
  • At MySQL Conference: Day 1 preview http://postgr.es/p/11g #
  • Can't wait for Bruce Momjian's MySQL Users Conf keynote debut. 9:40am #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • How much of the 5.6 performance schema and INFORMATION_SCHEMA is related to Percona Server? #mysqlconf #
  • Just gave #postgres sticker to @jaimeywb AND HE PUT IT ON HIS LAPTOP #mysqlconf #
  • Bruce tried to convince slahdot to convert to #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Downloads are estimated at 8-9 million per year #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • No one company owns Postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Slide of postgres users #postgres #mysqlconf http://t.co/n1R7EPS #
  • Bruce takes the stage #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Bruce actually on stage #mysqlconf #postgres http://t.co/CUjtpA1 #
  • Growing realization that one database does not fit all. #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Edb front and center at #mysqlconf #postgres http://t.co/9uuTJfZ #
  • In Sarah Sproehnle's talk about Hadoop #mysqlconf #
  • Talked to people in expo hall saying they came to #mysqlconf because of the postgres track #
  • In @fuzzychef's talk on data warehousing #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Why use #postgres for DW? Handles really complex queries well. (Query on screen got a wow from the crowd) #mysqlconf #
  • Transactional DDL blowing minds still. #ftw #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Shoutout to pg_loader for better COPY #dw #postgres #mysqlconf #
  • Showed sweet PL/R function to generate graphs directlybfrom the database #mysqlconf #postgres #
  • Windowing queries ftw for # of concurrent connections needed #yourewelcome #mysqlconf #postgres http://t.co/5XGStCe #
  • Shout out for @osbridge http://t.co/dJKupr0 #
  • Cross table indexes are a cool idea. #mysqlconf #
  • That was in reference to Akiban talk. #mysqlconf #
  • Akiban not looking into implementing this in postgres because our complex query handling is too good #mysqlconf #
  • Just updated the http://pdx11.org site with the slides from the Portland 100 talk. Also asked -mentoring mailing list for volunteers πŸ™‚ #
  • Already got 2 volunteers for website updates. Hoping for a couple more. πŸ™‚ #pdx11 #
  • And, now http://pdx11.org site has a PDF of the slides from the Portland 100 talk. /ht @jessevondoom #
  • In ballroom B for the #postgres BoF #mysqlconf #
  • Just facilitated another giga puddi vid viewing #
  • 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 #
  • MΓ₯rten Mickos up on stage. Shout out to EnterpriseDB. πŸ™‚ #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 πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ #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 #
  • OH: "gangsta join, gangsta aggregation, gangsta duplicate elimination, gangsta everything!" #
  • Late to keynote because I got stuck in the elevator. #mysqlconf #
  • We need to offer an upgrade. #opensource #mysqlconf #
  • Drizzle and PostgreSQL are making long-term investments in code quality -Baron #mysqlconf #
  • Baron @xaprb reflected on Edward Screven's keynote last year http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/public/schedule/detail/12440 #mysqlconf #
  • I wish @xaprb would talk about community management as what our open source community is good at. #mysqlconf #
  • "For MySQL to thrive, we need your (Oracle's involvement in this conference. Our communities are just too different." -@xaprb YES #mysqlconf #
  • "All the big database vendors totally whiffed on the internet." -@mikeolson πŸ™‚ #mysqlconf #
  • Classic Innovators Dilemma problem: MySQL saw an opportunity that everyone else missed. And then owned it. -@mikeolson #mysqlconf #
  • Today's keynotes are amazing. #mysqlconf #
  • First up: causes of downtime in MySQL. leading failure: disk full, runner up: SAN failure #mysqlconf HAH #
  • unsexy way to prevent failure: CHANGE CONTROL. /cc @katemats #mysqlconf #
  • pretty pretty pictures from the data viz talk πŸ™‚ #mysqlconf #
  • Downtime is sexy. -@fuzzychef #mysqlconf #
  • How to not scale: 1. Be Trendy. Use Reddit to pick technology. Next project:Closure and Qt on the desktop #mysqlconf @fuzzychef #
  • How to not scale: Learn how to single-thread your programming. Lots of locks. #mysqlconf @fuzzychef #
  • How not to scale: SPoF – not matter how large an infrastructure, build in a single machine which brings down all infrastructure #mysqlconf #
  • Just got accepted for #oscon a talk entitled "Mistakes were made." Should be fun. πŸ™‚ #
  • Wow twitter using DL380s πŸ™‚ #mysqlconf #
  • mourn not the dead is my favorite song. #
  • Heading back to Portland. Thanks, #mysqlconf #
  • Time to eat more vegetables. http://t.co/OcJjWnM #
  • Hello weekend! πŸ™‚ #