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Training Updates

Morgan Tocker — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:57:00 +0000

I wanted to provide an update on two things:

Firstly, we have opened registration for InnoDB/XtraDB training in Los Angeles (Nov 18th).
The second is that while I am in New York City for training (Oct 29th), I’ll be giving a (free) talk at the MySQL Meetup group there (Oct 28th).

We love to speak at Meetup groups. If you are an organizer feel free to let us know you are interested. There’s no guarantee that we can get schedules to align – but there are a number of Percona consultants that travel regularly.

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MySQL Scalability for Facebook Application Developers

peter — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:46:15 +0000

As the part of FbFund educational seminars I will give a talk on MySQL Scalability for Facebook Application Developers. We have been working with number of top FaceBook applications and these are really fun to work with due to their commonly agile development approaches and explosive growth if it happens to be the hit.

The event will take place Tuesday July 7th at 10:00 – it will be 1.5-2 hours presentation followed by discussion with me, Vadim and Ryan participating from Percona side.

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Announcing Percona.tv

Ryan Lowe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:45:14 +0000

Today marks the official launch of Percona.tv. We’ll be uploading technical screencasts, conference video, and anything else cool we can think up. If you’ve got ideas or requests, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate!

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Percona at PHP Quebec 09

Morgan Tocker — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:29:27 +0000

Percona presented two talks at PHP Quebec last week – one on A Tour of MySQL High Availability, and another on Performance Tuning MySQL. There was a great reaction to showcasing some of the quick-wins that can be found by using the Percona patches. Unfortunately, the one thing that I forgot to mention in the slides is that the patches are Open Source and free to use.

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Presentations from OpenSQLCamp Published

peter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:21:50 +0000

We have now published presentations from OpenSQLCamp at Percona Presentation pages

Percona MySQL Patches is a great presentation to see Percona Patches for MySQL in action, showing how you can use them to get more understanding of your server load and improve server performance, as well as how they can improve performance all together.

Sphinx full-text search engine is presentation about Sphinx Search Engine talking a bit about architecture, performance and new features in Sphinx 0.9.9

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How to Outrun the Lions

Baron Schwartz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:11:43 +0000

I just posted slides from a talk I gave at a Facebook application developer conference in Las Vegas this weekend. The talk is titled Outrun the Lions. Our customers run several of the top 10 applications on Facebook right now (as measured by the number of active users), and I revealed the secrets to building applications that can handle the load.

The title is a pun on the story about lions and gazelles in Africa (every day, a gazelle wakes and knows it must outrun the fastest lion; every day a lion awakes and knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle). If you’re a Facebook application developer, the lion is not your competition. It’s your users. They will love you if you do a good job. They will love you so much that the load will destroy your application, and then they’ll go away and they won’t come back. (Another speaker at the conference has the stats to prove this.)

A lot of our customers in our consulting practice are Facebook application developers, so we see the same patterns a lot. This talk was direct advice at how to avoid the problems they see as they grow. I skipped all the “you might consider these 99 options” and just said “here’s something our clients use and it works. Read the book for the full details.” If you read the slides, you’ll get an idea of how our customers have successfully scaled their Facebook applications to perform well even when they become very popular.

The reference to the book was because the company who sponsored the conference (Offerpal Media) gave everyone free copies of our new book High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition. Not only was this very nice of them to do, hopefully it’ll help them avoid trouble with their applications.

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Optimizing MySQL on Source Code Level

peter — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:24:17 +0000

I’ve now added one more presentation to MySQL Performance Presentations page. This presentation is from MySQL Users Conference 2006 which was presented by Vadim but which we prepared together. Hope you enjoy it.

Get it here

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