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When all you have is MySQL, everything looks like a table.
Jeremy Zawodny (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/) will talk about Craigslist's current use of MySQL, where it's painful, and how things are being re-architected to make the pains go away. This includes hardware changes, sphinx (http://www.sphinxsearch.com/), redis (http://code.google.com/p/redis/), memcached (http://memcached.org/), and some custom Perl work.
Jeremy's Bio can be found here (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/bio.html) (though it's outdated).
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 -- Doors open/general socializing & food provided by Percona (http://percona.com/)
7:00 - 7:15 -- Intro/announcements
7:15 - 8:00(ish) -- Main presentation by Jeremy Zawodny (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/)
8:00 - 9:00 -- Main presentation Q&A
9:00 - 10:00 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
10:00ish -- post-event socializing... aka beers someplace nearby
