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Percona Performance Conference 2010

Baron Schwartz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:55:36 +0000

It’s time to announce our plans for Percona Performance Conference 2010. We will hold the event on April 12th and 13th in Santa Clara, California. In the months to come we will announce the theme, the exact location (we have it reserved, but it’s subject to change), the exact dates (we may add days), and we’ll open up registration and a Call For Proposals. Stay tuned!

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Videos from the 2009 Percona Performance Conference now available on PerconaTV

Ryan Lowe — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:20:58 +0000

Videos from the 2009 Percona Performance Conference are now available on www.percona.tv. Let us know which you like best so we can have some ideas for the 2010 conference!

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EdUIConf 2009 recap

Baron Schwartz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:00:17 +0000

I spoke at EdUIConf 2009, a new conference in my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. My presentation was on web interface performance; it’s basically a twist on front-end performance in general. I slanted the talk towards web developers, rather than assuming the audience has full control over their Apache configuration.

The conference was relatively short — two days. The first day was full-day sessions. I skipped from Molly’s session on emerging web standards (good; summary of what I witnessed: HTML5 cometh) to Dan’s session on visual design, which was excellent. The second day I wasn’t able to make it for the morning, and there were only 2 sessions (leaving aside the plenary and keynote) and I was presenting in one, so that was it for me.

You can download slides for my session on performance if you are interested.

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Speaking at Highload.ru

Morgan Tocker — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:24:49 +0000

This is a quick announcement to say that I’ll be speaking at HighLoad++ this year (October 12-14 in Moscow). I’ll be presenting on a few topics:

MySQL Performance Tuning (Conference Session)
Quick Wins with Third Party Patches for MySQL (Conference Session)
Performance Optimization for MySQL with InnoDB and XtraDB * (Full day class)

This will mark my first trip to Russia – and oh boy am I excited. I’m taking a few days vacation after so I can tour around Saint Petersburg. Want to say hello? Let me know at morgan-at-percona-dot-com!

* Yes, this is the same as our InnoDB course we taught last week in Santa Clara and San Francisco. More venues are coming in the next couple of days – wait for another blog post!

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Off to California!

Morgan Tocker — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:54:30 +0000

Today’s the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week.

Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great – it was an opportunity to do a road test and iron out any kinks in the delivery.

What did I learn in the process?

Solid examples provide context. I didn’t have the best SHOW GLOBAL STATUS data for the practice teach, but I’ve edited my slides and our official classes will have much better information.
Operational issues are one of the most important things people want to hear more information on. A fair number of students know that dropping an index is not as painless as it should be, but not everyone knows about tools like Flipper and MMM. It’s not the main focus of our InnoDB/XtraDB workshop, but we will cover how to solve these sorts of problems.
Not everyone knows what a mutex or secondary key index is. It was great to have a crowd that was very quick to give vocal feedback, and the material flowed much nicer once I stopped and spent 2 minutes to explain each of these.

We’ve still got tickets available to both Santa Clara (14th) and San Francisco (16th), but there is a fair chance San Francisco will be full by the weekend. If you’re coming, see you next week!

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Announcing Percona Training Workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB

Morgan Tocker — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:49:21 +0000

Today, we are announcing that we’re ready to offer training for InnoDB and XtraDB in Santa Clara and San Francisco. The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team – and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in our consulting practice.

The Details:

14th Sept – Santa Clara
1 day intensive course
Cost: $300*

16th Sept – San Francisco
1 day intensive course
Cost: $300*

(* includes a copy of High Performance MySQL if you register before 31st Aug).

The delivery format:

Being only one day, we elected to deliver the course in a predominately lecture-format – but there will be a few opportunities to try examples. For more information see the Percona Website.

Get a Free ticket!
We’re giving away the first two tickets to readers of our blog. To enter, send an email to contest[at]percona.com or Twitter @Percona before August 10th to explain what your favorite Percona patch is and why. Yasufumi Kinoshita has kindly accepted to be our judge – which should make things interesting!

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Percona BOFs at OSCON

peter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:04:33 +0000

Talks are great. I however very much like discussion and opinion share atmosphere of the Birds of a Feather sessions so we host/co-host number of BOFs at the comming OSCON conference.

Future of MySQL Forks, Branches and Patches I guess is the topic a lot of us are interested in. Monty was going to Show Up and we also should see if we can get someone from Drizzle.

Is Enterprise Flash Ready for Prime Time Flash is cool and hot these days. This is the discussion session and I would really like to hear how well flash works for you whenever you’re using it for storage as a cache or as a part of your hybrid storage hierarchy.

Open Source Data Management Is the BOF about open source tools you’re using to deal with your data – storage, caching analytics. I am especially interested hearing on unorthodox use of the software and successes of new technologies.

I also expect there will be number of other BOFs we’ll attend as the time permits. Monty was going to organize BOF on Open Database Alliance though I have not seen it listed yet.

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Percona talks at OSCON

peter — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:57:46 +0000

The OSCON 2009 is taking place next week and we have bunch of talks we’re presenting. I am presenting Full Text Search with Sphinx, MySQL Community Patches and Extensions and Goal Driven Performance Optimization.

Vadim and Ryan have a talk XTraDB OpenSource Storage Engine for MySQL.

This month OSCON is taking place in Silicon Valley which is good for me as I do not have to spend the whole week away from home. Though I would also miss Portland which is Green and beautiful in Summer.

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OpenSQL Camp 2009

Baron Schwartz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:39:49 +0000

This is just a public service announcement (reminder?) that LenZ and Giuseppe are planning OpenSQL Camp 2009, this time in Europe, which is great. It’ll be part of FrOSCon.

I wish I could say that I’ll attend, but due to various unpredictabilities in my family, I can’t plan that far ahead. I don’t yet know whether anyone from Percona can attend, but I know a couple of our European consultants are looking at it and tossing around various proposals. (BTW, any lack of proposals / sessions from Percona is strictly our fault, in case there is concern about that. One person noticed and said something to me, so I thought it’s worth mentioning.)

I’m thrilled that people thought the first OpenSQL Camp was valuable enough that they’re carrying it forward!

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Scaling w Flash Webinar Recording Available

peter — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:59:14 +0000

The Scaling with Flash webinar I’ve mentioned earlier was a success and we got the recording available. It contains Percona presentation, presentation of Schooner appliances and Q&A session. Enjoy.

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