The Web And PHP Magazine just published an article describing Percona XtraDB Cluster written by Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp. It is a pretty high-level introduction to the technology, so definitely give it a read if you’ve been wanting to give it a closer look. Go to their website http://www.webandphp.com and download Issue number 9 for free! [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
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 [...]
Percona Live London 2012: Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell
On Monday I will deliver with Seppo Jaakola from Codership a tutorial on Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona Server + Galera). Already in London and you don’t know how to consume the hotel’s bandwidth ? If you attend this tutorial, you can download the Virtual Box appliance we will use during the session.
Realtime stats to pay attention to in Percona XtraDB Cluster and Galera
I learn more and more about Galera every day. As I learn more, I try to keep my myq_gadgets toolkit up to date with what I consider is important to keep any eye on on a PXC node. In that spirit, I just today pushed some changes to the ‘wsrep’ report, and I thought I’d go over [...]
Speaking at Percona Live London 2012: Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell
If you are interested by a great and revolutionary HA solution for MySQL or even if you already have some experience with PXC and/or Galera, I invite you to attend the tutorial I will deliver in Percona Live MySQL Conference London 2012 (PLUK2012), December 3rd : Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell. Small amount of [...]
Understanding Multi-node writing conflict metrics in Percona XtraDB Cluster and Galera
I have addressed previously how multi-node writing causes unexpected deadlocks in PXC, at least, it is unexpected unless you know how Galera replication works. This is a complicated topic and I personally feel like I’m only just starting to wrap my head around it. The magic of Galera replication The short of it is that Galera [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.28-23.7
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster on November 15th, 2012. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has ported Twitter’s MySQL NUMA patch. This patch implements improved NUMA support as it prevents imbalanced memory allocation across NUMA nodes. Number of binlog files [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Part 1
I was honored to be asked to be a member of the committee for the “big” MySQL conference: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, CA. Personally, I’ve been attending this conference for 6 or 7 years and missing it only when my wife was pregnant with a due date in April [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster – installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A
Thanks for all, who attended my webinar, I got many questions and I wanted to take this opportunity to answer them. Q: Even ntp has a delay of 0.3-0.4 between servers does that mean a 0.25 as from logs can be an issue ? A: My demo vms were running for a few hours before [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1 on October 26th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]

