I was honored to get two talks accepted at the MySQL conference this year, but interestingly both of them are actually only indirectly about MySQL.
The first is called “Writing non-blocking code for interaction with data systems and web services in Node.js and Perl”. This sounds fancier than it is, I picked up some non-blocking programming in Perl and a bit of Node.js (which, strangely, is pretty straightforward once you write some Perl AnyEvent) my last year or so at Yahoo. This talk really is just meant to be a gentle introduction to what this type of coding is, how it works, and some of the things you can do with it. My goal is to present something I could have used when I was trying to make the jump from straight procedural to event-driven programming a few years ago.
The second is “Running a high performance LAMP stack on a $20 Virtual server”. This talk is based off of my experience running a small hosting/consulting company that resold cheap VPS servers running my custom tuned Debian Linux to run LAMP stack sites. This typically ended up being things like Expression Engine and Magento. I spent a lot of time tuning these servers to maximize the RAM utilization to give my customers the best bang for their buck. This talk goes through all of the various architecture paths I went down and what I ultimately settled on, including webserver(s) of choice, CDN usage, PHP daemons, and big win MySQL tuning.
I’m working on putting these classes together this week, and I just got some good news that both of them have been selected for OSCON this year as well, so if you miss the MySQL conference, maybe I’ll see you there instead.
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