MySQL Performance Blog

As you may have seen from his blog, Baron Schwartz is joining our consulting company - Percona in less than a week. This is exciting news for us as Baron is renowned MySQL community member, blogger, co-author of High Performance MySQL second edition book, author of Maatkit and Innotop and just a great guy.

Welcome Baron - We’re proud to have you onboard.

So if you always wanted to hire Baron to take a look at your system and help you with high availability scaling optimization or other needs you can do it now by filling out our consulting request form

Reading Martens interview we see the quite:

“As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major European national police agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger public corporation. The deal wouldn’t have happened when we were private.”

Cool stuff! But I’m wondering how much the opposite applies as well - this would leave small companies to seek for other ways to get the service they need ?
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