Devops Needs Sushi
Last week I was in Manchester for the 2010 UKUUG Spring Conference, right .. make that 2 weeks ago , :)
The UKUUG usually hosts the more interesting conferences around … , it’s not just the schedule that attrackts me , yes there’s the strong focus towards Larger Scale Unix (and mostly Linux) deployments and how to manage them, but there’s also the opportunity to chat in real life with the Devops from across the chunnel.
Over at the OPenARK blog Shlomi Noach argues that using apt-get or yum to install your MySQL instance will one day most likeley break your MySQL setup. Depdendencies, distros not shipping the MySQL version you want to use and on some distro’s indeed the mysql vs MySQL issue, agreed, it all makes things less trivial.
However why give up a clean packaged system if there are other ways out ?
First of all by claiming that such an installation can break a working production environment looks to me like admitting you don’t have a split development, production environment and that rather than testing stuff upfront indeed you just hack a long in production.
I would like to point the crowd to the Call For Presentaions of Loadays. , the Linux Open Administration Days .
The Linux Open Administration days 2010 will be the first edition of a new conference focusing on Linux and Open Administration, we are trying to fill a gap for System Engineers and Administrators using Open Source technologies"
More details on the Linux Open Administration Days site
I’ll probably be there .. given the fact that the event will be 5 minutes from where I live .
Fosdem 2010 was my 10th fosdem Edition (including the first OSDEM)
As every year Fosdem suffered even more from it’s own success.
On Friday evening ther was the obligatory Beer event… however as people need to eat to .. the Devops crowd fled the scene
I had made reservations for a 20 something group and with the CentOS crowd joining us (as there was some overlap anyhow) we were 25 when we arrived in the restaurant .
I know the biggest part of my fanclub already booked tickets for my upcoming presentations, but the other 2 might want to check their calendars to see if they aren’t missing out on the good stuff :)
Next Sunday I`ll giving a shortish overview of MySQL HA alternatives in the MySQL and Friends devroom at Fosdem.
March will bring me to Manchester again for the UKUUG Spring conference where I`ll be giving a longer version of that presentation with a strong focus on integrating with PaceMaker, and automating the whole boostrap procedure of a HA setup.
Fosdem is coming up again .. It’s going to be the 10th edition already So it’s going to be 2 days and nights of fun, tech and geek stuff
Lenz already posted the announcement , but allow me to recapitulate.
The MySQL & Friends meetup is on saturday evening , we’ll meet around 1900 in front of the under the big tree in front of the AW building…
As with the Devops Meetup you can once again vote for your preferred food
Lots of people writing about Snorkle again today ,Monty Says, help saving MySQL
He gives us different options, a , b or c .. but I , and some others, want an option d
No I don’t trust Oracle, it’s not like they have been a very good Open Source Citizen, yes they contribute to the kernel and other projects but my feeling says it’s only because they have to (Kernel, Xen and others ) not because they Want to (thinking about Unfakable etc) , if they would really want to they probably would work with the CentOS community more etc, and as Monty mentions their InnoDB track record could be better.
The 10th edition of Fosdem is getting closer, yes .. I said 10 ,10 decimal that means ten, not two :)
It’s kinda hard to imagine that this is actually going to be my 10th fosdem , it feels weird ..
Anyhow.. Lenz just announced a call for participation for the MySQL and Friends devroom.
I`m guessing a talk on .LolSQL might be a good fit for the “and Friends” part.
No I did NOT post the following comment
This is ridiculous. You didn’t test MySQL, you tested a failing DNS lookup on authentication.
resulting in the follow up post :
My previous post Redis, Memcache, Tokyp Tyrant, MySQL comparison had a flaw as pointed out by this comment. The MySQL was taking a huge time for doing a reverse DNS lookup.\
But as always … Everything is just a Freaking dns problem :)
by @botchagalupe
on Virtualization, Open Source tools and DNS Problems