Open Tech Calendar

Agenda:

6:00pm: Pizza / Beer / Networking

6:30pm: Scaling, Tuning and Maintaining the Monolith (MySQL – The Database we all love … to hate) by Ross McFadyen

7:30pm: Linn Products Software Release and Support cycle by Barry Williams

8:30pm: Socialise at Slug & Lettuce

Thanks to our amazing sponsors, Altia Solutions and SkyScanner; without their support, this event wouldn't be possible.

Abstracts:

Scaling, Tuning and Maintaining the Monolith (MySQL – The Database we all love … to hate) by Ross McFadyen

During this talk we’ll take an intricate deep dive into MySQL in production and development and the problems that arise when applications need to scale.
In a world where startups grow to millions of users overnight and the Enterprise demands a tried and tested database we’ll start by examining MySQL’s relevance in a competitive marketplace where NoSQL and other relational databases claim to have it covered.
It can often be difficult to identify exactly where the bottleneck lies and what the next move should be; we’ll discuss best practices for identifying the bottlenecks and the appropriate remedies from scaling vertically and horizontally to clustering and sharding. We’ll also discuss some of the issues that come with MySQL at scale and how we can maintain it with minimal downtime whilst still performing complex tasks.

About the Speaker

Ross McFadyen currently works as Technical Lead and Solution Architect at Digirati; A company focussed on Digital strategy, design, integration and engineering services for the public and private sector. A self confessed evangelist, Ross has an extensive career working with MySQL for a multitude of companies from start-ups to multinational corporations and in a range of sectors from e-commerce to large scale video processing grids spanning hundred’s of servers and covering multiple continents.

Linn Products Software Release and Support cycle by Barry Williams

Linn are a high end hifi manufacturer based in Glasgow; we are engineering focused and we develop the software that goes into the products we sell and provide. We also write all the software that runs production within the factory and have done so for over 20 years.

About the Speaker

I'm Barry Williams, I started working for the IT Department for Linn Products in 2012 and I'm going to talk through our favoured way of designing, developing, releasing, and supporting our products within the factory. Starting from sprint planning with our fellow staff (project stakeholders) to continual releases, our testing ethos, how we package, deploy, monitor and support the services which run our production line.