… a book being involved in MySQL Support, MySQL Consulting, Documentation, MySQL Training while working for MySQL and now on his own. Finally… fast writer. Another strong point of Baron are having experience working with a lot of other database technologies as well as… tools – Innotop and MySQL Toolkit. Initially Andy proposed us to work on the book in classical way, meaning we distribute chapters…
Post: Joining Peter for MySQL Consulting
September 4, 2006 By 2 Comments
… as well as work with him on some Web projects. I really enjoyed working under Peter’s guidance while working for MySQL and it is great we now can work together as a… that improve MySQL usabalitity and performance. Finally I will continue work on MySQL and LAMP Performance analyzes and benchmarks. We need…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
… of months for tracking European traffic in ClickAider and it work reasonably well. This time I got less lucky and in… of calming down most of rare offended customers. In our Consulting Work we also follow the same principle – if customer requests second… is the best way to deal with clueless support stuff working for big companies/big call centers ? Of course call again…
Post: Percona is hiring a consultant
December 16, 2009 By 7 Comments
… interruption. Expert knowledge of InnoDB. You should understand its inner workings well enough to answer questions about its internals from memory, such as “how does the insert buffer work?” or “how does MVCC work on secondary indexes?” You should also know why…-source server software. Proficient with Maatkit and MMM. Proven success working in a distributed environment where e-mail, IRC and voice…
Post: Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC
April 25, 2012 By 9 Comments
… good experience with this card, and it seems suitable to work with MySQL. I will publish sysbench oltp benchmarks running MySQL… the webinar. Disclaimer: This benchmark is done as part of consulting work for STEC, but this post is totally independent and fully…
Post: Are you designing IO bound or CPU bound application ?
December 20, 2006 By 10 Comments
… MySQL Consulting work or even more frequently. IO Bound workload is quite different from CPU bound one, which happens when your working set…
Post: Funniest bug ever
January 31, 2009 By 19 Comments
… to this bug which is a nightmare bug for any consultant. Working with production systems we assume reads are reads and if…
Post: Onsite and Remote - getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
…. Remote work has a benefit of consultant being available in the short time intervals and being able to multi task. Working with the… these things take time and make consultant to wait for them. In case you’re working remotely consultant typically has other tasks to… not going to be available to assist consultant when he is doing the work. As remote work is often done cross time zones…
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… Percona consultant was called back in to do some further work about 6 months after Peter helped a client. Now, if Peter worked… do any work? Peter’s report 6 months ago was a small encyclopedia!” The mistake here was that the consultant didn’t… quick explanation the customer understood that the consultant had really done a lot of work, but it’s better to show the…
Post: Percona is hiring performance experts
February 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
… own billing systems like you do at some consulting companies. The successful Percona consultant has a combination of experience, aptitude and attitude… either works or it doesn’t. This Percona consulting is a real culture shock, even if you think you’re used to working… those who have experience working from their home for an email/IRC/chat/phone based support or consulting organization. If you think…
