Includes: the link to the playlist for all 11 videos plus 11 individual links to each video: Spider: Sharding for the Masses - Giuseppe Maxia A Better mysqltuner - Sheeri Cabral (my session!) Getting acquainted with Apache Derby - Kristian Wagaan New kid on the block: The BlackRay Data Engine — Felix Schupp MySQL High Availability Solutions — Lenz Grimmer Bringing Master/Slave into the 21st Century using Tungsten Database Clustering — Linas Virbalas PBXT: Technology trends that affect your database — Vladimir Kolesnikov MySQL Proxy: a MySQL toolbox - Architecture and concepts of misuse — Jan Kneschke Galera Replication, multi-master synchronous replication for MySQL — Seppo Jaakola Panel Discussion: The OSS Toolshed Shootout Speakers and technologies: Sheeri K. Cabral - MySQL; Holger Klemt - Firebird; Felix Schupp - BlackRay;  []

Why sharding is not always good

Everybody needs sharding, and the Spider storage engine offers a nice solution, transparent to the final user, to implement sharding without losing track of usability.

Looking at sharding your environment? This is the real-world example of sharding our databases using Spockproxy, a sharding-only version of the MySQL Proxy. Layout, sharding, and loading data; problems and limitations of working within shards; and how to get around these problems. The problems and solution we've come across are largely applicable to every kind of sharded environment.