MySQL Cluster talk at FrOSCon 2006

An hour ago I ended my 45 minutes MySQL Cluster Introduction talk at the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon). I tried to really make this a compact, more or less complete overview. Apparently it worked!

MySQL Cluster is quite a beast to talk about. Doing this in 45 minutes, with 15min extra for questions, is not an easy task. You can check my presentation on the FrOSCon website of the presentation. I was troubled about the order of things, for example should I talk about components first, do the overview later? I feel it is OK as it is right now, though I have to cut a bit for making it shorter, and clearer.

A feedback after the talk was that I needed to touch the fact that Cluster is not really functional on Windows (yet). This made me think I indeed missed some nice information here and there. Another comment from Giuseppe Maxia, who talked after me, is about providing maybe a useful example which takes a database and makes it suitable for cluster. Not complete, but give a start for users.

People who attended my talk, please comment on this! I would like to make this presentation better as an introduction. Make it lean and mean and highly available which scales for all nodes^Hpeople.

Comments

Anonymous

Mon Jun 26 2006, 22:43

Froscon 2006 Cluster Talk

Hi Geert,

(Jeez you look way different in real life…Anyway…) I really liked the cluster talk. It’s a good overview. In fact, the talk is so good it makes you wanna get into the trenches and try it right away.

You mention that 45 minutes seems a short amount of time to talk about cluster. Well, my feeling is that most of the attendees at the forscon talk agree. It would be really cool to present this as a hands-on workshop.

However, a 45 minute talk can serve good purposes here and there. I think that for a 45 minute talk, you could maybe balance a little more between the business case for deploing cluster and the inner workings of cluster.

What I mean is this: at the froscon talk, there was quite some room for dicussing the different partitioning scenario’s. Although this is an interesting feature, it takes a lot of time to explain in detail. Time that could be used to stress how cluster can help out in high availability situations, and what methods (have the client use failover hosts for example) and tooling should be used to get the most out of productivity with MyCrosoft.

Cheers,

Roland kind regards, Roland

Anonymous: Mon Jun 26 2006, 22:43

Froscon 2006 Cluster Talk

Hi Geert,

(Jeez you look way different in real life…Anyway…) I really liked the cluster talk. It’s a good overview. In fact, the talk is so good it makes you wanna get into the trenches and try it right away.

You mention that 45 minutes seems a short amount of time to talk about cluster. Well, my feeling is that most of the attendees at the forscon talk agree. It would be really cool to present this as a hands-on workshop.

However, a 45 minute talk can serve good purposes here and there. I think that for a 45 minute talk, you could maybe balance a little more between the business case for deploing cluster and the inner workings of cluster.

What I mean is this: at the froscon talk, there was quite some room for dicussing the different partitioning scenario’s. Although this is an interesting feature, it takes a lot of time to explain in detail. Time that could be used to stress how cluster can help out in high availability situations, and what methods (have the client use failover hosts for example) and tooling should be used to get the most out of productivity with MyCrosoft.

Cheers,

Roland kind regards, Roland