{"id":66,"date":"2007-04-23T04:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frogcake.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/santa-clara\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:44:27","slug":"santa-clara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidkeen.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/santa-clara\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have arrived in Silicon Valley where I will be spending the next week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">MySQL Conference &amp; Expo 2007<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty excited about it.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out California is quite a long way from London. After a ten hour flight I caught the big double-decker Caltrain train south along the Bay to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mountain_View,_California\">Mountain View<\/a> where I transferred to the Valley Transportation Authority Light Rail. I was soon rolling past the offices of Yahoo, Net App and Lucent, the huge hangars and radar dishes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/ames\/home\/index.html\">NASA Ames<\/a> and Lockheed Martin and the deliciously named Chubby&#8217;s Broiler.<\/p>\n<p>The train carried on down W Java Dr and it wasn&#8217;t long before I reached the Santa Clara Convention Center and my hotel (the Hilton) directly opposite. My room is pretty nice and from my window I can see the roller coasters of the Great America theme park.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to plan what sessions to attend but looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">schedule<\/a> I have the usual problem of there only being one of me. Tomorrow is tutorial day and although my registration is sessions-only at the moment, apparently I can upgrade it to the tutorials tomorrow. Unfortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">Scaling and High Availability Architectures<\/a> is sold out so I might go along to hear about all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">new stuff in MySQL 5.1<\/a> in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>5.1 has some cool new features like partitioning (which could allow us to eliminate tables split by date in <a href=\"http:\/\/openx.com\/\">our application<\/a>) and logs on demand. In fact there is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">another session<\/a> just on the new logging capabilities at the conference. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/datacharmer.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/first-taste-of-logs-on-demand.html\">this post<\/a> for some examples of what you can do when the logs are stored in the database itself.<\/p>\n<p>Learning how to write your own storage engine sounds intersting but not something I see myself doing any time soon so I reckon I see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/\">how Wikipedia operates<\/a> in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have arrived in Silicon Valley where I will be spending the next week at the MySQL Conference &amp; Expo 2007. I&#8217;m pretty excited about it. It turns out California is quite a long way from London. 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