Next weekend saturday I`ll be giving a talk about devops at StartUp Weekend Brussels, from what I’ve read so far it promises to be an audience that needs the talk,
The week after I`ll be speaking at the DrupalDevDays, again about devops , however this time with a touch of Drupal , giving a devops talk at Devoxx last year to a Java audience learned me that the devops evangelist need to go outside of their usual conference audiences and als talk to the people that are usually in the other silos.
When I read on the internetz that Alex Davies was about the publish a Packt book on MySQL HA I pinged my contacts at Packt and suggested that I’d review the book .
I’ve ran into Alex at some UKUUG conferences before and he’s got a solid background on MySQL Cluster and other HA alternatives so I was looking forward to reading the book.
Alex starts of with a couple of indepth chapters on MySQL Cluster, he does mention that it’s not a fit for all problems, but I’d hoped he did it a bit more prominently … an upfront chapter outlining the different approaches and when which approach is a match could have been better. The avid reader now might be 80 pages into MySQL cluster before he realizes it’s not going to be a match for his problem.