How to move from a single LAMP stack box to N servers without losing your sanity. A variety of options are presented (DRBD, read/write splitting, sharding, etc) with a discussion of their cost (financial, time, changes to application, and sanity), their ease of management, and performance. If you need to scale your application, do not miss this session.

1. Simple things to do with minimal cost
-- upgrades to software
-- query tuning
2. DRBD
3. read/wrtie splitting
4. Partitioning/sharding -- includes MySQL Fabric
5. How do drink from the fire hose
6. Up 365/24 or 1^n simultaneous sessions
7. Clustering options