How to Scale Big on MySQL? Break a Few Rules!
http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/events/49135352″
Tue. Jan. 30, 6:45pm – NYC
Scott Bonneau, Vice President of Engineering for Bazaarvoice
Throughout colleges and in development teams around the world, software developers are explicitly and implicitly taught a number of database principles: Normalization, avoid duplicating data storage, don’t over-constrain your queries, and many others. In high scale web applications dealing with billions of requests, there are a number of these “rules” that commonly have to be broken. Bazaarvoice has over a terabyte of data in MySQL instances, and serves over a billion requests per month, however, as the Bazaarvoice backend scaled to this size, the team recognized a number of compromises made along the way and documented them in this presentation.
If you’re worried about your application’s scalability, or how to handle the onslaught of traffic when your new site launches, this presentation will give you some great techniques to consider and will introduce you to Engineers who’ve done this before. You’ll hear us talk about which of these compromises paid off, and which we still regret. In addition to scaling on MySQL, we’ll also talk briefly about other datastores we’ve used in conjunction with MySQL, when just an RDBMS wasn’t enough.
Scott Bonneau is the VP of Engineering at Bazaarvoice, He is an experienced engineering manager with a proven track record of delivering Google-scale projects and building and organizing world-class engineering teams. Scott has proven himself as a team leader with excellent individual management and mentoring abilities, and as a systems architect who is not afraid to roll up the sleeves and crank out code when need be. Since joining Bazaarvoice he has been instrumental in the formation of the Data team, whose sole focus has been to create and maintain a datastore capable of managing terabytes of data and billions of requests per month.
RC Johnson is the New York City Development Manager at Bazaarvoice, Originally starting as a Senior Software Engineer, RC has been a part of the myriad of changes the backend systems have gone through over the last four plus years of exponential growth. With his recent background in technology, RC is now leading the creation of a New York based Bazaarvoice Engineering team working on complex problems and large datasets.
Book^2 (pronounced “Book Squared”) Camp is a free series of meetings in New York City and elsewhere where the brightest minds in Publishing and Technology discuss and problem-solve what the next incarnation of the book will be.
There will be as many different points of view and out-of-the-box thinkers in the same room as we can fit in with the blessing of the fire brigade.
We’ll meet in small groups and have collaborative, conversational meetings on everything from eReaders, eBook formatting, interesting paper book projects, digital rights management (or not), social reading, metadata, reading upside down on the moon with robot zombies and anything else we can think of.
All we ask is that everyone who attends actually, earnestly and humbly wants to contribute to and learn from an open, collective, cooperative brain trust on “book next”. We’re all in this together. There are no wrong answers. Will you join us? Let’s figure it out.
http://3dprintingparty.eventbrite.com
Join the 3D printing party!
Pocket Factory brings you a one-night, two-hour crash course in computer-aided design and 3D printing; turn your dream widget into plastic reality ON THE SPOT! It’s a creative commons licenced mashup! Grab files from thingiverse.com and learn the basics of modeling the way all great artists learn best – by stealing!
WHEN: This Monday, Feb 13, 7–9pm
WHERE: New Work City @ 412 Broadway, Floor 2, NY NY 10013
WHAT: Learn 3D design and instant 3D fabrication; keep what you make!
SUPPLIES: Just bring a laptop with Inkscape and Rhino3d installed!
COST: $20 (savvy adults & precocious teens welcome!)
HOSTS: Bilal Ghalib, Colin Parsons & Alex Hornstein of Pocket Factory (pocketfactory.org)
Make Geeky Stuff!
Who and what the heck is Pocket Factory?
Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein are traveling around the country for a month with a Prius-full of low-cost 3D printers, starting a business printing and selling things on these machines. Modern-day troubadours, moving from town to town with 3D moneymakers in their trunk, eliciting inspiration and fascination where they travel and making a living for themselves off their ideas and wits. They’re chronicling all the successes, failures and stories from running a design and production business using Maker 3D printers as their production machines. You can read about their exploits weekly on Make, and also on pocketfactory.org.
[ IMPORTANT NOTE – This workshop is not about building websites. ]
http://learntocode.eventbrite.com
Anyone and everyone can write their own programs! If you’ve ever cooked following a recipe, you can program. If you’ve ever solved a puzzle, you can program. If you’ve ever played a game – you can program! Learn the basic concepts of computers, information processing, and modern programming languages from a pro and empower yourself with a set of problem solving tools you can apply to any situation. Students at all skill levels are welcome, though beginners will benefit most from this study. No experience is required other than a strong desire to learn how to program.
Students will walk out of this workshop having learned many of the fundamental concepts of modern programming languages. They will gain a basic working knowledge of the Python programming language, and will take with them the mental framework needed to approach problems logically and atomically. Please note that this workshop is not about “building web sites” or using HTML or other markup languages or any other form of “front end design”; Python is best described as a “back end” technology and is all about how technology works “under the hood”.
Note: This listing is for the simulcast. If you’re looking for tickets to the main event, they are being released at 1 p.m. on February 20 and February 24 on the main event page.
For the simulcast: join a small group of friends and fellow technologists to watch NY Tech Meetup live from New Work City. You’ll have a chance to connect and enjoy a beer, all while watching the demos at NYTM’s monthly event.