{"id":3496,"date":"2013-10-11T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2013-10-09T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:07:14","slug":"pictures-of-auckland-where-osdc-2013-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/pictures-of-auckland-where-osdc-2013-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Auckland (where OSDC 2013 is!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s getting close to time to head to Auckland for OSDC<\/a> and a few days ago I blogged about how I’m speaking there<\/a>). I’ll be speaking on MySQL In the Cloud, As A Service<\/strong> and all of the challenges that can entail as well as on The Agony and Ecstasy of Continuous Integration. <\/strong>Both of these talks draw heavily on the experience of Percona<\/a> (my employer) and with experience from helping customers with all sorts of MySQL deployments and in our experience in producing our own high quality software.<\/p>\n

I was in Auckland earlier this year, so thought I’d share some pictures of the wonderful city in which OSDC is being held.<\/p>\n

Firstly, New Zealand has some pretty awesome wildlife. This is possibly not the best example of it ever as there are way more odd looking birds than this one:<\/p>\n

\"Auckland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The waterfront is quite nice, and when we were there earlier in the year it was awfully nice weather for it:
\n\"Auckland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure there isn’t going to be a triathlon in Auckland for OSDC, but I’m still hoping to get out for a run while there (anybody else up for one?). We left home at something like 3:30 in the morning and got some silly early flight (6am or before) and were totally walking around the city a little like zombies, realising that we simultaneously wanted to go for a run and sleep.<\/p>\n

\"Auckland<\/a><\/p>\n

We were meeting friends from Seattle and managed to spot this coffee place down by the water. I didn’t try it myself, but I’ve certainly had good coffee at other places in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\"Seattle<\/a><\/p>\n

Streets at night:<\/p>\n

\"Auckland@dusk\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And if I haven’t already convinced you that Auckland would be a great place to be, here’s a crappy cell-phone snapshot of a variety of New Zealand beers – a tiny, tiny fraction of beer you can get in New Zealand (the microbrewery scene is amazing<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Go register for OSDC 2013 right now: http:\/\/osdc.org.nz\/tickets\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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