I’ve been woefully neglectful of my responsibilities to post regularly about Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 (PLCME 2013), but here’s some highlights of what I am planning to attend from the schedule. Read to the very bottom for the chance to win a free full pass to the conference! When picking talks to attend, [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
December 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
As Percona Live London is raging in the UK, I thought it fitting to remind everyone about the next big Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, Californa on April 22-25, 2013. You can register NOW for this conference, and the Super Saving Registration deadline ends on December 28th, so be sure to [...]
Webinar: Looking for Painless MySQL High Availability ?
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I have a pleasure to deliver Webinar on Industrial-Strength MySQL Applications Using Percona and Continuent together with Robert Hodges next week, Nov 28. We will talk about how you can use technologies from Percona and Continuent to build Highly Performance and Highly Available Applications utilizing MySQL Replication. I’ve been interesting in doing this Webinar for [...]
The Math of Automated Failover
September 18, 2012 By 9 Comments
There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on production incident which GitHub disclosed. Here is my take on it. When we look at systems providing high availability we can identify 2 cases of system breaking down. First is when the system itself has a bug or limitations which does not [...]
Upcoming Webinar “Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup and Tungsten”
February 2, 2011 By 3 Comments
On February 10, We will be giving a webinar “Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup and Tungsten”. This is joint Continuent and Percona Webinar with full description: Big data is a big problem for growing SaaS businesses and large web applications. In this webinar, we’ll teach you how to set up Percona Server, XtraBackup, [...]
Upgrading MySQL
January 5, 2010 By 23 Comments
Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different “depth”. For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It is Regressions – functionality regressions when what you’ve been [...]
Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – Replication
November 13, 2009 By 6 Comments
In the last 2 blog posts about High Availability for MySQL we have introduced definitions and provided a list of ( questions that you need to ask yourself before choosing a HA solution. In this new post, we will cover what is the most popular HA solution for MySQL, replication.
