Giuseppe Maxia

Giuseppe Maxia
Director of Quality Assurance, Continuent

Website | @datacharmer

Giuseppe Maxia, a.k.a. “The Data Charmer” is the MySQL community team lead at Sun Microsystems.

He’s an active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast.
During the past 23 years he has worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, object oriented programming, system administration.
Fluent in Italian, English, Perl, SQL, Lua, C, Bash, and good speaker of C++, French, Spanish, Java.
Works in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

Sessions

8:30am–12:00pm Monday, 04/12/2010
Using Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out, Security and Database Administration, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom F Level: Novice
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
Average rating: ****.
(4.17, 6 ratings)
MySQL 5.1 introduces partitioning – a very useful feature for databases with large tables. The latest release, MySQL 5.5 enhances partitioning to make them even more user friendly and powerful. This tutorial explains the basics, and some advanced techniques to get the most from partitioning. Read more.
1:30pm–5:00pm Monday, 04/12/2010
Shooting from the Hip. MySQL at the Command Line.
Security and Database Administration, Tutorial, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom E Level: Novice
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
Average rating: ****.
(4.29, 7 ratings)
Command line skills for administering and using MySQL are still one of the main requirements for professionals in the Unix world. This tutorial provides the basics and several advanced techniques. Read more.
11:55am–12:40pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Sharding for the Masses
General, MySQL Cluster and High Availability, Replication and Scale-Out, Storage Engine Development and Optimization, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom D Level: Novice
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent), Kentoku SHIBA (WildGrowth)
Average rating: ***..
(3.44, 9 ratings)
Sharding is a hot topic. Every big web site is using some sharding technique with home made solutions. The quest for the silver bullet goes on without apparent good results. This session will present two MySQL storage engines (Spider and Vertical partitioning) that implement transparent sharding techniques. Read more.
3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Getting Started With Gearman For MySQL
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C Level: Novice
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent), Eric Day (craigslist)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Gearman is a distributed client/server architecture that can handle tasks independently from programming language and operating systems. Using it, you can create flexible and efficient applications. Through MySQL UDFs, Gearman functions can me made available to a MySQL server directly. Read more.
3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Boosting Database Performance with Gearman
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C Level: Intermediate
Eric Day (craigslist), Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.86, 7 ratings)
Many people view topics like Map/Reduce and queue systems as advanced concepts that require in-depth knowledge and time consuming software setup. Gearman is changing all that by making this barrier to entry as low as possible with an open source, distributed job queuing system. This session looks at advanced use cases that demonstrate the power and flexibility of distributed architectures. Read more.
2:00pm–2:45pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Gearman MySQL Hacks, or Everything You Wanted to Do With a Database Server and You Never Dared to Hope
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C Level: Expert
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent), Eric Day (craigslist)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Users of Gearman know that it is a distributed client/server system that allows great flexibility to developers and DBAs. Advanced users of this tool have come up with amazing examples of cunning hacks that will possibly help you in your daily tasks immediately or get you started in your path of creating your own hacks. Read more.
  • Oracle
  • Monty Program
  • Calpont
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Joyent
  • Kickfire
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Percona
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ)
  • Intel
  • Pentaho
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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