MySQL Users Conference 2006 - April 24-27, 2006


Co-presented by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and MySQL AB

Session

My Second Life Runs on MySQL: War Stories from the Metaverse

Ian Wilkes, Director of Operations, Linden Lab

Track: Cluster, Replication, and Scale-out
Date: Wednesday, April 26
Time: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Location: Ballroom E

Second Life is a 3D online world where the users call the shots; from creating simple objects to writing complex distributed programs, they build and do pretty much whatever they feel like. And what they feel like doing is often something we never predicted.

This talk will cover the evolution of Second Life's database architecture over the past three years, as they've gone from a handful of users to tens of thousands. Wilkes will discuss the biggest hurdles they've overcome along the way, and give an overview of where they plan to go over the next few years.