Comments on DBA Dojo: Is EC2 useful as a database server

I am hoping that most presenters post their materi...

2008-04-16T04:49:00.000-07:00

I am hoping that most presenters post their material online. Unfortunately some slides are completely pointless with audio.
Especially if the speaker uses the one word per slide, rapid flicking of slides type presentation.

The other question, DB clustering. Given time Amazon should/will/ improve the latencies between EC2 nodes. At the moment many grid/cloud possible software expect

Sorry to post it here, but will these presentation...

2008-04-07T08:26:00.000-07:00

Sorry to post it here, but will these presentations be available online. I'm in Europe.

Would be nice to talk about mysql-proxy and the new comer... scalr project, isn't it ?

I also heard that some tried to implement a db cluster in the cloud, but unsuccessfully. Bad done or simply impossible due to network latencies ?

Thanks mate, added Carl to the blog post. My bad.W...

2008-04-06T05:11:00.000-07:00

Thanks mate, added Carl to the blog post. My bad.

Well you are closer than me (5 hours vs least 14), though I know Sheeri is going along to the conference. Maybe I can convince her to attend the presentation. I will have to wait until I download the slides or audio later.

Paul,Thanks for plugging my talk (to be 100% fair ...

2008-04-05T23:06:00.000-07:00

Paul,

Thanks for plugging my talk (to be 100% fair - it's both mine and Carl's talk).

I like your analogy of being an "electricity generator" - I think that's quite accurate. While EC2 will survive restarts, and it's possible to configure software RAID, there are still some limitations when compared to 'traditional' offerings. I look forward to sharing those next week ;)