Lenz Grimmer's blog

Jay has written an excellent summary of sessions at the MySQL Conference & Expo that will be particularly interesting for developers using MySQL to power their applications or web sites. I noticed that he did not explicitely mentioned the Perl scripting language, even though there actually are a few sessions that will be of interest for the Perl Mongers amongst us (I would not dare to claim I am one myself, I just hack on it in my spare time):

• There will be a tutorial about "Real-world MySQL Performance Tuning", held by our very own Jay Pipes and Ask Bjørn Hansen. The tutorial will take place on Monday, 1:30pm in Ballroom B. As Ask is a very seasoned Perl hacker, I expect that he will spice up his part of the presentation with many valuable Perl hints as well. In any case, he's the one to talk to about all things Perl and MySQL!
• On Tuesday at 1:40pm, Earl Cahill from United Online will explain how they use Perl, Memcached and MySQL for "Logging Terabytes of Hits with MySQL". The session will take place in Ballroom A.
• Memcached and Perl seem to be a popular combination: Michael Otto and Erick Dennis from ePublica will explain their solutions to "Solving Growing Pains for OpenBC/Xing.com", which also involves a lot of Perl wizardry. Their talk will be on Tuesday, 2:30pm in Ballroom D. As Xing.com has grown their user base quite significantly and are now expanding their presence outside of Europe as well, I would have expected that their talk would also be referenced in this article about high profile success stories about scaling web sites, but somehow it was missing... In any case, this is going to be an interesting insight into Europe's largest social networking site.
• Giuseppe will also hold a BOF about "Using Perl's DBD::mysql". It will take place in the "Lawrence" room on Tuesday, at 7:30pm.
• Tobias Eggendorfer from the Universität der Bundeswehr in Neubiberg, Germany will speak about "Optimizing Performance for Dynamic, High Volume Web Pages" on Wednesday, 2:30pm in Ballroom D. They also utilize Perl to cope with the performance requirements.

I am sure I missed some relevant sessions, as Perl is usually taken as a given in many of today's implementations and applications and may therefore not be considered worthwhile to mention anymore. It's probably more hip to work with Python or Ruby these days... Let me know, if I missed one!

In closing I'd also like to add another shameless plug for the DotOrg Pavilion here: Perl is going to be present there, too: the very popular XAMPP application stack of course includes it, and Bugzilla is an entire application written in this scripting language. So make sure to stop by at the exhibition area and let them know, if you are a Perl geek as well!