I flew back into Sydney on Sunday morning to give a tutorial at Sun’s Expanding Horizon’s summit. It was a half day tutorial on MySQL Cluster – so a shortened version of the one I’ve given at the MySQL User Conference for the past few years. I had about 15 attendees, all of which had done their homework (It probably help that they were pestered via phone :)<\/p>\n
The tutorial went really well. It really helps when everybody has done the homework and already have Linux and MySQL Cluster installed. Everybody got up and running (we used mysql-test-run to start a cluster, not writing the config file from scratch, which made things happen a lot faster). Also got some good feedback – yay! We may even have some people look to deploy it after attending, always a plus.<\/p>\n
I also gave a “Scaling MySQL” talk that was well attended. I didn’t talk at all about query optimisation, mysqld configuration tuning or stuff like that – instead focusing on making the app saner, caching etc. memcached, of course, got a good mention :) It seemed to go down well, some good questions, and a rather full room.<\/p>\n
So a rather productive two days for spreading the freedom love.<\/p>\n
However, the conference dinner was complete FAIL on account of the venue. I don’t know which vegetarians\/vegans call beef and fish vegetarian, but I’ve never met one (hint: they don’t exist). This is *after* the explanation on being vegan. Then… there was some discussion about pasta with a tomato\/vegetable sauce, never came. So as others were finishing meals, again inquire – eventually, something was brought over. Undercooked rice and undercooked steamed vegetables. I don’t know who eats that for dinner (hint: nobody). Of course, after the pasta discussion, I then selected a wine that would go with it. After more of the stuff-ups, I pointed out that there was no way I was going to pay for the wine when shit like that was served (yes, in those words… perhaps I’ve been watching too much Gordon Ramsay).<\/p>\n
It was the first time ever<\/strong> that I’ve left a restaurant during a function, gone down the street, gotten take away and brought it back. Novotel Brighton Beach (in Sydney) – you suck.<\/p>\n (there’s also a beutiful view across the bay of the runways of Sydney airport… which is fine if you can sleep through planes landing an taking off, like i can, but i know others can’t).<\/p>\n Will never stay at the Novotel Brighton Beach voluntarily, ever. On the plus side, the guy at the desk when checking out was very apologetic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I flew back into Sydney on Sunday morning to give a tutorial at Sun’s Expanding Horizon’s summit. It was a half day tutorial on MySQL Cluster – so a shortened version of the one I’ve given at the MySQL User … Continue reading