In This June Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

• Detailed Profiling of SQL Activity in MySQL 5.6
  By Mark Leith
MySQL's latest update to the Performance Schema brings the ability to profile an statement's activity, low-level wait events, and I/O impact. It is the easiest and most detailed way to identify what statements to tune and how.


• Acquiring Big Data Using Apache Flume
  By Dan McClary
Data analysis is only half the battle; getting the data into a Hadoop cluster is the first step in any "Big Data" deployment. Apache Flume uses an elegant design to make data loading easy and efficient.

FROM THE VAULT
• Kernels, Contexts, Threads, and Extensible Database Architecture
  By Ken North
If you are building a new database management system or simply want to write better database applications, you should be aware of the extensible architecture of operating systems and database managers.

EDITORIAL
• By Andrew Binstock



• NEWS BRIEFS
  By Adrian Bridgwater
Recent news on tools, platforms, languages, and the state of the software development world.


• LINKS
  Snapshots of the most interesting items on drdobbs.com including the Clojure philosophy, making APIs attractive to developers, and the pragmatic side of using big data.

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