A refreshing change from my daily routine as tilllate CTO (90% meeting, 10% coding) was my visit at the first Webtuesday Hackday yesterday (Hackday = “a day spent hacking with like minds”, as organizer Harry Fuecks defines it).

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After a day of speaking about about memcached, squid and sharding at the tilllate offices, Peter was still fresh enough to hold a talk about Advanced MySQL Query Optimization for the Webtuesday (notably on a Wednesday).

Even though we announced the talk just three days ago I’ve never seen the room at namics packed so much. Even the Ruby guys around Tristan cancelled their Höck and joined us! No surprise: Peter is well known through his Mysql Performance Blog.

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Busy week for the open source IT pros around Zürich: On Thursday Vint Cerf will talk at Google. On Wednesday, Nov 21st tilllate is happy to announce a presentation of Peter Zaitsev of the MySQL Performance Blog. He will talk about query optimization for high traffic sites.

Peter Zaitsev was manager of the High Performance Group at MySQL Inc. He specializes in MySQL Server performance as well as in performance of application stacks using MySQL, especially LAMP. Web sites handling millions of visitors a day dealing with terabytes of data and hundreds of servers is king of applications he loves the most.
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