Date: 2008-04-07 09:41 Subject: Brian's stab at "the death of replication" Security: Public

I think Brian is right with his The Death of Replication story.... replication is very useful for many cases, but RDBMS (commercial and FLOSS) have done a fairly dismal job at getting multiple writers to scale decently economically. And modern companies just don't have piles of cash to throw at this, nor does that really scale on the web scene (speed of deployment, etc).

In this context, I'm not sure the new memory based MySQL storage engines coming out are so relevant, they might be fixing the wrong thing in the wrong place. They'll have their place for now, but it's not moving us forward really.

What needs to be fixed is distributed writes. And economically!

Date: 2008-04-07 17:01 Subject: MySQL Community Dinner at MySQL Conference! Security: Public

Community initiative: we want to do this event Sunday evening (13 April), while the Sun/MySQL gang has its annual pre-conf staff party at Marten's house.

Our suggested destination is the nearby (proper) Mexican which has excellent food. If you're interest in coming, please add your name to the special page on the MySQL Forge wiki so we can get some idea of how many people to expect. Further details on the wiki page! You can also note there if you have wheels available to help transport people. Oh, and bring your own wallet ;-)

I hope to see you there - there should be plenty of people, as many of you will have arrived by Sunday afternoon. And it'll be interesting for me, as this will be my first MySQL Conference where I'm neither employed by MySQL nor running the conference. A whole new perspective! Although I have to say, I will miss Marten's party. He has a local Swedish chef (no kidding) cook up a fantastic array of munchies. Ohwell...