The best way to performance tune a system is to find out what your bottlenecks are, and attacking those first. In the first part of this session, I'll be looking at some of the issues faced with common database workloads. From there, I'll then be showing how you can get more information out of MySQL and your Operating System to find out about your workload. This session is designed for beginner to intermediate MySQL users.

Ed Ort, Senior Staff Information Engineer, Sun Microsystems talk with Mark Matthews, Architect, Enterprise Tools, Sun Microsystems about MySQL and Java best practices

A presentation about MySQL HA solutions by Lenz Grimmer, presented at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels, Belgium

Video of Lenz Grimmer, speaking about the virtual organization at the next09 conference in Hamburg, Germany