The MySQL Conference kicks off this week in Santa Clara through Thursday. We have tutorials and various customer and partner meetings today. Some of the tutorials are sold out, but you can still register on site. The main conference program starts Tuesday and there will be news announcements each day.
There's been a couple of late additions to the program which should be pretty cool, including a session called HA MySQL on EC2. It sounds like a lot of acronyms, but it's very interesting stuff. It's all about using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud to create a virtual hosted scale out solution to high availability MySQL applications that you pay for "by the drink." So if you imagine a web application which can have huge swings in demand and capacity, you can simply provision more computing power at any time. Instead of buying hundreds of servers which are idle much of the time, you can provision dynamically when needed and pay only when you fully need the capacity. The Amazon guys behind EC2 have flown half way around the globe to bring this session to the conference.
This is a prety interesting topic and definitely one that will become even more important in the future.
I wish I could have attended, but I was giving my S3 talk at the same time. It's unfortunate that there were 2 AWS talks at the same time.
Posted by: Mark Atwood | April 25, 2007 at 03:07 PM