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Stewart Smith
Director of Server Development, Percona

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Stewart Smith works for MySQL AB as a software engineer working on MySQL Cluster. He is an active member of the free and open source software community, especially in Australia. Although Australian, he does not dress like Steve Irwin—although if he wrestled crocodiles he probably would. He is a fan of great coffee, great beer, and is currently 39,000 feet above sea level.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Eat My Data: How Everybody Gets File IO Wrong

Programming
Location: D137

Stewart Smith (Percona)

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Odds are you get an F in using the POSIX file IO APIs. Even better, you probably don't know it. Oh, and operating systems can hate you. As a user, you'll leave crying. As a developer, you'll leave knowing you have bugs to fix. Read more.