Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Catching up with Mark Atwood on memcached

I had an opportunity to catch up with Mark Atwood last week to discuss his new role at Gear6 and some of the interesting developments currently going on around memcached, including Gearman integration and its suitability for cloud computing environments.




Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Free Webinar: Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL

Join us for a free webinar tomorrow where we will present the fundamentals of migrating a sample application from Microsoft Access to a MySQL back end. We will be giving the presentation twice, at 14:00 Central for EMEA and 10:00 Pacific for North America. To register, visit here.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Free Webinar: Read/Write Load Balancing w/ Zeus in the Cloud

Raja Srinivasan from Zeus will presenting how to load balance MySQL reads and writes on the Joyent Public Cloud tomorrow in a free webinar taking place at 10 AM Pacific (America). Register here.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Free Webinar: Memcached and MySQL for Rapidly Scaling High Traffic Websites

For those interested in learning "how it gets done", Raj Narayan - Director of Operations at Glam Media will be talking about how they evolved their infrastructure in route to becoming the 2nd fastest growing US-based web property in 2008. MySQL and Memcached proved to be critical pieces of infrastructure and continue to serve nearly half a billion hits per day. This is a free webinar taking place Thursday, November 12, 2009: 10:00 Pacific time (America) hosted by MySQL and Gear6, register here.