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Open Source Conference in Malaysia
So I’ve been bugging Colin Charles to invite me over to Malaysia for the last couple of months and what does he offer me? an opportunity to speak at a open source conference in Malaysia 
FOSS.my is a two day event (9th & 10th next month) and as stated on their conference homepage, the aim of this conference is to cover technical aspects of various OSS projects without any business/sales intervention for those that follow open source technology in South East Asia (and other regions too of course). The cool thing is that after telling mixi about this event, they liked the idea so much they decided to sponsor the event immediately. I didn’t really expect this but hey, awesome.
At this conference, I will be doing two talks where one will go over how mixi uses various OSS technologies to power the largest social networking service in Japan. The other talk will cover how the memcached internals work and latest hot topics in the development community like the upcoming binary protocol.
I’ve never been to Malaysia before so I’m totally looking forward to this trip.
Great Fun at the MySQL Seminar
Last week I spoke at the MySQL APAC seminar in Tokyo as a guest speaker with Brian Aker on “Memcached and MySQL”. The seminar turned out to be very fun with just over one hundred attendees. You can checkout the photos from the official MySQL APAC blog (text is in Japanese).
At the end of the seminar, I showed a brief demo of the custom storage engine project that Trond Norbye and I have been working on for the last few weeks. If you’re interested, you can read more about it on his blog, or come on over to the memcached channel on freenode
