Tricks and Tradeoffs of Deploying MySQL Clusters in the Cloud Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc) The slides at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/21/Tricks%20and%20Tradeoffs%20of%20Deploying%20MySQL%20Clusters%20in%20the%20Cloud%20Presentation The official conference page is at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/6912 Unfortunately, this video was cutoff at the beginning, but most of the presentation is available.

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