New York, New York
Scalability & Web Operations Expert. Specializing in MySQL & EC2 Migrations, Disaster Recovery, Agile Deployments, and Database Performance.
Areas of Expertise:
- Web Scalability
- EC2 Migrations
- MySQL Migrations
- Cloud Scalability
- MySQL Performance
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Database Management
- SQL Tuning
- NoSQL
- Drupal
- PHP
- LAMP Stack Optimization
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- training
- writing
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Sean blogs at:
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A History lesson for Cloud Detractors
January 30 2012
We've all seen cloud computing discussed ad nauseam on blogs, on Twitter, Quora, Stack Exchange, your mom’s Facebook page... you get the idea. The tech bloggers and performance experts often pipe in with their graphs and statistics showing clearly that dollar-for-dollar, cloud hosted… read moreJanuary 27 2012
In his latest book, What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis seems to have authored a gushing tribute to the search giant that has pledged to do no evil. He paints a very optimistic picture, and shows us over and over how Google has opened up industries, and how that same… read moreThe Problem with Startup Bootcamps
January 19 2012
Scanning Crains NY Business recently, I saw an article on 'starting up' in 54 hours. It's the brainchild of Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen and Franck Nouyrigat called Startup Weekend. Startup bootcamps seem to be the current extra-curricular activity of choice these days. Wharton… read moreScalability Rules for managers and startups
January 10 2012
Abbott and Fisher’s previous book, The Art of Scalability received good reviews for shifting the way we think about scalability from merely splitting databases and adding servers, to include the human factors that weigh heavily on its success. Together with the authors’ distinguished pedigree (PayPal, Amazon, and eBay between them),… read moreJanuary 02 2012
Walking around New York you find yourself stopping at plenty of different places to grab some takeout for lunch. There are Vietnamese sandwich places, pizza shops, noodle bars, taco stands, juice bars and of course your daily coffee shop. You'll find an endless variety. As is customary in New York,… read moreReview: Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
January 02 2012
Clay Shirky tells a great story. Here Comes Everybody begins with a case of a lost phone in a taxi cab, and the extraordinary turn of events that led to the owner retrieving it. From photos posted online, to NYPD who were uninterested in following up, to taking it all online.… read moreDecember 19 2011
I’ve been getting more than my fair share of calls from recruiters of late. Even in this depressed economic climate where jobs are rarer than a cab at rush-hour, it’s heartening to know that tech engineers are in great demand. And it’s even more heartening to think that demand for… read moreWhat Ops doesn’t tell you about your MySQL Database
December 16 2011
MySQL is a very scalable platform which has proven robust even in the most dense and complex data environments. MySQL's indispensable replication function is 'sold' as being fail-safe so you have little to sweat about as long as your backups are running regularly. But what the ops guys aren't telling… read moreGreat Interactive Map of NYC Startups
November 28 2011
Business Insider posted this spectacular interactive google map of our amazing Startup Ecosystem here in New York City. Wow! Check out the full list of NYC Startups in the original article. View NYC Startups in a larger map read moreHow to hire a developer that doesn’t suck
November 25 2011
First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse operations team. It is almost by default that developers are disruptive with their creative coding… read moreBook review – Trust Agents by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith
November 25 2011
Stumbling onto 800-CEO-Read, and their top books feature, I found Brogan and Smith's work. Brogan's blog intrigued me enough so I walked down to the Strand here in NYC to pick up a copy. What I found was an excellent introduction to the nebulous world of social media marketing, where… read moreSeattle Web Tech Meetup Nov 21
November 17 2011
I'll be one of two speakers at the next Seattle Web Technology Bi-Weekly Meet up on Nov 21 at the Citrus Lounge. They've sexed it up a little by calling it a face-off between Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 (no prizes for guessing which side I represent) but really it's… read moreNovember 03 2011
Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements by Ronald Bradford No Nonsense, Readable, Practical, and Compact I like that this book is small; 150 pages means you can carry it easily. It's also very no nonsense. It does not dig too deeply into theory unless it directly relates to your day-to-day needs. … read more5 Tips to Cache Websites and Boost Speed
November 01 2011
Often when we think about speeding up and scaling, we focus on the application layer itself. We look at the webserver tier, and database tier, and optimize the most resource intensive pages. There's much more we can do to speed things up, if we only turn over the right stones. … read moreThe market for Cloud Computing
October 31 2011
Saw this awesome infographic by Cloud Spectator on twitter today. A great snapshot of the expected growth in Cloud Computing. If the Cloud Computing market was stacked up against world economies it would be the 51st largest in the world with massive inequality - Amazon has half the share. read moreWebcast: MySQL Upgrades With No Downtime
July 27, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this webcast we'll discuss a two-node MySQL multi-master replication setup. We'll take the audience step-by-step through the process, and then uses MMM (MySQL Multi-master Manager) to manage &...
Webcast - DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven
January 19, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free DRBD has grown in popularity as an excellent low-cost high availability solution for MySQL. It provides synchronous replication of your data without MySQL having to worry too much about the details. ...
Webcast - Hands-on: Step-by-step MySQL Clustering Setup
August 04, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Preview Video: Free Full Video: Available on Safari Books Online MySQL's Clustering solution provides some pretty sophisticated functionality. In this webcast we'll take you through getting it up and running on...
Webcast - MySQL Replication: Audit, Test, & Verify
January 22, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Audience: MySQL DBAs and developers MySQL replication is fairly easy to set up, but in the real world many obstacles can get in the way of keeping it up and running smoothly. One problem that seems ...
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