MySQL High Availability

MySQL High Availability

Book Description
Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don’t have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL has several features that can help you protect your system from outages, whether it’s running on hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud. MySQL High Availability explains how to use these replication, cluster, and monitoring features in a wide range of real-life situations.

Written by engineers who designed many of the tools covered inside, this book reveals undocumented or hard-to-find aspects of MySQL reliability and high availability — knowledge that’s essential for any organization using this database system.

* Explore the binary log, a file for replication that helps in disaster recovery and troubleshooting
* Get techniques for improving response time and handling large data sets
* Monitor database activity and performance, as well as major operating system parameters
* Keep track of what masters and slaves are doing, and deal with failures and restarts, corruption, and other incidents
* Automate key tasks with code from an open source library written by the authors
* Learn techniques for using MySQL in virtualized environments, such as Amazon Web Services
* Use MySQL Cluster to achieve high availability


“MySQL replication is widely deployed but has never been adequately explained. This book changes that.” — Mark Callaghan, MySQL contributor and leader of MySQL engineering efforts at a few of the world’s largest Internet companies

About the Author
Dr. Charles A Bell is a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. He is currently the lead developer for backup and a member of the MySQL Backup and Replication team. He lives in a small town in rural Virginia with his loving wife. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. His research interests include database systems, versioning systems, semantic web, and agile software development.

Dr. Mats Kindahl is a senior software developer working on the MySQL server. He is the main architect and implementor of MySQL’s row-based replication and is responsible for strategic development of replication, reengineering, and the plugin architecture. Before starting at MySQL, he did research in formal methods, program analysis, and distributed systems, the area where he earned his doctoral degree in computer science. He has also spent many years developing C/C++ compilers and knows more programming languages than he has fingers.

Dr. Lars Thalmann is the development manager for MySQL replication and backup. He is responsible for the strategy and development of these features and leads the corresponding engineering teams. Thalmann has worked with MySQL development since 2001, when he was a software developer working on MySQL Cluster. More recently, he has driven the creation and development of the MySQL backup feature, has guided the evolution of MySQL replication since 2004, and has been a key player in the development of MySQL Cluster replication. Thalmann holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Uppsala University, Sweden.

SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform

SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform

Book Description
SharePoint is gaining recognition as a full-fledged application server with many features and enhancements that specifically allow non-developers to create sophisticated intranet sites. However, with the 2010 release, Microsoft’s SharePoint increasingly becomes a compelling development platform. The strong application programming interface (API), its highly extensible nature, and its foundation on the underlying .NET Framework all generate “the perfect storm” to make it one of the most powerful web development platforms available.

However, with power comes complexity. The wide range of usage scenarios make it difficult for developers to grasp the full ability of this next-generation platform. This book takes an in-depth, all-encompassing approach to programming concepts, the extensibility interfaces, and how to embrace SharePoint as a toolkit full of features available to web developers.

* Take an in-depth look into the internals of SharePoint.
* Create sophisticated applications using SharePoint controls and databases.
* Understand the API and use in conjunction with ASP.NET to extend SharePoint.

SharePoint is more than a portal and more than an intranet. Harness its capabilities and put it to work for you.

What you’ll learn
* The hierarchy of SharePoint’s API
* How to create rich, extensible, and broad SharePoint applications
* How to use SharePoint’s internals
* How to approach SharePoint as an open toolkit rather than a closed, intranet-only model
* How to take advantage of SharePoint’s extensibility and customize its behavior

Who is this book for?
This book is for ASP.NET developers who want to create applications using SharePoint as a platform. It’s also for users of SharePoint Designer that want to professionalize their development work.

About the Author
Joerg Krause has been working with software and software technology since the early ’80s, starting with a ZX–81 and going the first steps using BASIC and assembler language. He studied information technology at Humboldt University Berlin, but left early to start his own operation in the ’90s. He is the author of E–Commerce and Online Marketing (Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich). He currently works as a senior consultant for Microsoft Technologies at Computacenter AG.

Christian Langhirt has been working with information technology since the early ’90s. He starts running his own software development business in 1998 at the age of 18. In addition to his own company he studied information technologies at the University for Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten. After that he received a degree as Master of Science at Technische Universität München. He currently works as a senior consultant at Computacenter AG and leads a high skilled consulting team for Microsoft technologies.

Alexander Sterff works as a Consultant for Microsoft Technologies at Computacenter AG. After many years of experience in object oriented Software Development with Java and Open Source technologies he started working with Microsoft products. Since then, he has participated in many different software projects, using his wide experience to guarantee their success. In the past years he became an expert in building solutions that leverage the full potential of Office SharePoint Server, BizTalk and InfoPath. Alexander received a bachelor’s degree in informatics and a master’s degree in information science, both at Technische Universität München.