About Speaker
Colin Charles works on the MariaDB Server at MariaDB Corporation. He has been the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB since 2009, with work ranging from speaking engagements to consultancy and engineering works around MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in Asia and Australia, and has spoken at many conferences to boot.
About the Topic
Many operations folk know that performance varies depending on using one of the many Linux filesystems like EXT4 or XFS. They also know of the schedulers available, they see the OOM killer coming and more. However, appropriate configuration is necessary when you're running your databases at scale.
Learn best practices for Linux performance tuning for MariaDB/MySQL (where MyISAM uses the operating system cache, and InnoDB maintains its own aggressive buffer pool), as well as PostgreSQL and MongoDB (more dependent on the operating system). Topics that will be covered include: filesystems, swap and memory management, I/O scheduler settings, using and understanding the tools available (like iostat/vmstat/etc), practical kernel configuration, profiling your database, and using RAID and LVM.
There is a focus on bare metal as well as configuring your cloud instances in.
Learn from practical examples from the trenches.