… the Dolphin is now delivered by Edward Screven, the new boss of the MySQL business, now at Oracle. Monty changes his… from you attending MySQL Conference over last 10 years. Please leave comment and share your experiences! Thank you. Additionally, I’d…
Post: Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO
August 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
Spoiler alert: If your boss does not need an elephant, he is definitely NOT going … to find an advice on selling useless goods to his boss. While I do use a similar technique to get a… to the company – get the performance improvements implemented now or leave things as they are and just work on the next…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
… MySQL I still kept a lot of independence with my boss Tom Basil supporting my creativity rather than forcing me to… to keep us very busy. You can work remotely Before leaving MySQL I actually talk to MySQL Professional Services Director – Josh…, especially after we brought Andrew Aksyonoff to the team. Projects Leaving MySQL we wanted not only to work as consultants but…
Comment: "Shard early, shard often"
November 17, 2009 By 6 Comments
… has performance problems, all while the boss wants to add more features. If you do leave sharding for later, make sure everyone…
Post: Tom Basil (formerly MySQL's Director of Support) Joins Percona
December 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
…. When Peter and Vadim were at MySQL, Tom was their boss for 4 years. Now, Tom works for them! And Tom… up what Tom has told me. His main regret is leaving behind friends at MySQL Support, which has been a close…
Post: MySQL MyISAM Active Active Clustering - looking for trouble ?
March 15, 2007 By 4 Comments
… is waiting for you. If other MySQL node crashes it leaves table in potentially corrupted state which you need to check… not allow to prevent race condition. Of course sometimes your Boss simply heard Active Active clustering is cool and you should…
