With Percona Live NYC right around the corner I decide some of attendees what did they like on the last year event and what they are looking forward to in 2012. Here are some responses I got. If you’ve attended in 2011 or planning to join us in 2012 please feel free to comment with [...]
Percona at SELF
There is a great conference – SELF (South East Linux Fest) taking place in June 8-9 in Charlotte,NC This conference has a great lineup for MySQL with 2 tracks on Friday dedicated to it. There are many great speakers both from Oracle and community on the list. From Percona I will speak about Optimizing MySQL [...]
Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz will moderate the Diamond Keynote Panel entitled “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” which will feature a panel of MySQL industry leaders, including: Sundar Raghavan, director product management at Amazon; Paul Mikesell, CEO of [...]
A Book-Signing Opportunity for Technical Authors
Have you authored a technical book that’s relevant to MySQL users? Want to get great visibility for yourself and your book? We’re planning a book-signing session for the upcoming MySQL conference, and you can participate in it. In brief, we’ll provide a table for you, and you’ll then be able to promote yourself, i.e. post [...]
Last chance for a discount on Percona Live DC!
In just over a week, we’ll be running a Percona Live MySQL conference in the nation’s capital, in a beautiful modern conference facility that has its own Metro rail stop. And for a limited time, you can save 20% with this discount code: PerLiveDC. If you’re in the DC area and you use MySQL, this [...]
Announcing Ignite Percona – San Francisco, Feb 16th.
We’re excited to announce that as well as Percona Live – we will also be holding an evening of Ignite talks on February 16th. For those not familiar the format, you should check out the Best of Ignite from the MySQL conference last year, as well as Baron’s What is the Difference Between XtraDB and [...]
Presentations Announcement: 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on…
Author: Peter Zaitsev, Justin Swanhart
MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti
Author: Baron Schwartz
Percona‘s Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB
Author: Bill Schuler, Baron Schwartz…a Bottleneck
Author: Morgan Tocker
XtraBackup Hot Backups and More
Author: Vadim Tkachenko, Morgan Tocker
You can also read more about this conference on Percona site.
Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev: Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication Baron Schwartz: EXPLAIN Demystified Vadim Tkachenko: An Overview of Flash Storage [...]
Meet the faces of Percona this week in Santa Clara
This year we’ve assembled a team of seven Perconian representatives for the MySQL Conference & Expo/Percona Performance Conference. If you like a particular blog post we’ve written over the last year, have any other feedback, or just want to say hello – we’d like to meet you! From left to right; Morgan, Ewen, Baron, Vadim, [...]
Conference for MySQL Users
If you’re following PlanetMySQL you’ve already seen Baron’s post about MySQL Conference which many of us just have returned from. It was great event as well as 5 conferences I’ve been before that, though however it more and more becomes MySQL marketing channel and business event rather than Users Conference as it originated. This Year [...]

