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[ This is my personal blog so all opinions expressed here are mine. I am a product, scalability, operations and monetization advisor and currently employed as Director of Business Operations & Technical Strategy for a top 50 website that delivers billions of page views per month. I was a keynote panelist for Scaling Up or Out keynote at MySQL Conference and speak regularly at conferences and user groups. ]
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Memcached for MySQL: Advanced Use Cases Slides

The slides from my second memcached webinar are embedded below. If you want you can also watch the memcached webinar on demand (includes sound).



I would like to know what else you would like to know about in my next webinar on memcached. Please leave a comment or if you prefer, email me at fmashraqi [at] yahoo dot com.

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Memcached for MySQL: Advanced Use Cases Webinar

My second webinar, Memcached for MySQL: Advanced Use Cases Webinar, that I presented for Sun/MySQL on July 3rd had more than 526 registrants (despite the fact that many people were on vacation at that time).

A big thanks to everyone who attended. The recording of webinar (with sound) is now available on MySQL website. Also thanks to Jimmy Guerrero, Rich Taylor, Alex Roedling, Edwin DeSouza and Sun/MySQL for inviting me for the second time to give this webinar.

If you registered previously for the memcached webinar, you can simply login to access the Webex recording. Otherwise, you will have to register for the on-demand webinar.

After watching/listening to the webinar, in case you have any questions or suggestions for my next webinar, please feel free to email them to me at fmashraqi [at] yahoo dot com.

The description of the webinar follows:

Memcached for MySQL: Advanced Use Cases

Join us for this in depth technical webinar where memcached guru Frank Mashraqi of Fotolog will demonstrate several use cases on how to leverage memcached to increase the performance and scalability of MySQL driven web sites and applications. Memcached is the open source distributed memory caching system used by some of the biggest websites in the world like, YouTube, Facebook, LiveJournal and Wikipedia. Use cases explored include: non-deterministic caches, deterministic caches, a replacement/add-on for file system caches and more. We will also provide an overview of memcached production support available with a MySQL Enterprise subscription. The presentation will conclude with a question and answer period where you can "ask the expert" about the technical details of memcached. Attendees will also receive a technical white paper.

WHO:
  • Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi, Director of Business Operations and Technical Strategy - Fotolog Inc
  • Jimmy Guerrero, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems – Database Group
WHAT:
  • Memcached for MySQL: Advanced Use Cases web presentation.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Keynote Panelist - Scale Up Or Scale Out

This year, I was part of a keynote panel, Scaling Up or Out, at the MySQL Conference and Expo along with Jeff Rothschild of Facebook/Accel Partners and Paul Tuckfield of YouTube. The event was attended by more than 2,000 attendees.

Scale Up Or Scale Out - Keynote
Keynote Panelists from left to right: Monty Taylor (MySQL),Matt Ingenthron (Sun), John Allspaw (Flickr), me, Domas Mituzas (MySQL/Wikipedia), Jeff Rothschild (Facebook) and Paul Tuckfield (YouTube)

Sheeri took a video of the keynote session that can be viewed below.

Video of Scaling Up or Out keynote session:
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To read more about this scalability keynote, view pics and to watch more videos, see my Scaling Up Or Out Keynote post.

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