In a month, the 24th of October, Johan Andersson (severalnines.com) and I will be giving a full day tutorial on NDB cluster which will include both presentations and hands-on. Be ready for a fast ramp-up on NDB! Among items covered: – Achitecture – Installation – Loading data – Administration (common procedures) – Node recovery – [...]
Using MySQL as a Queue, and Free Percona Live Tickets
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week’s TGIF give-away contest is a day early, and it’s a guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you. Go there to read the full post, and watch @engineyard’s Twitter feed for the chance to enter the contest for free [...]
MySQL data via a NoSQL solution, Free ticket to Percona Live London
September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The much-anticipated ability to access MySQL data via a NoSQL solution has been realized. Using HandlerSocket, significant performance gains can be realized for certain workloads. Sound like something you are interested in? Join us for Percona Live London to hear Ryan Lowe, Percona’s Director of American Consulting speak on this subject. In Ryan’s session he [...]
Understand InnoDB spin waits, win a Percona Live ticket
September 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
It’s Friday again (so soon!) and time for our TGIF contest, to give away a free ticket to Percona Live London. Before we do that, though, just what in the world does this output from SHOW INNODB STATUS mean?
1 | Mutex spin waits 5870888, rounds 19812448, OS waits 375285 |
To understand this text, you have to understand how InnoDB handles mutexes. It tries a [...]
Return of the Query Cache, win a Percona Live ticket
August 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
It’s Friday again, and time for another TGIF give-away of a Percona Live London ticket! But first, what’s new with the MySQL query cache? You may know that it still has the same fundamental architecture that it’s always had, and that this can cause scalability problems and locking, but there have been some important changes [...]
Win a free ticket to Percona Live London!
August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Win a free ticket to Percona Live London on October 24-25! Watch @percona on Twitter, and retweet our TGIF contest tweet to enter. We’ll pick a random retweet and give away a free ticket each week. If you don’t win this time, try again, or register and get the early-bird discount (but don’t wait too long: it expires [...]
Just hours left until Percona Live sells out!
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We’re seeing a spike of last-minute ticket sales for Percona Live New York. Meanwhile, we’re assembling bags and unpacking t-shirts at the venue. If you want to come, buy your ticket now — we’re rapidly selling out the remaining tickets! Remember, if all the tickets are sold, you can still come to the evening event [...]
Free Percona Live tickets and Percona Support contract!
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just a couple of announcements for Percona Live: we’re giving away free tickets through Engine Yard, and we’ve arranged our evening open-bar event. For a chance to win a free ticket, check out the guest blog post I wrote for Engine Yard on how to make Rails migrations faster and safer. In other news, Percona [...]
Win a free ticket to RailsConf!
May 15, 2011 By 10 Comments
I have one free ticket to give away to RailsConf next week in Baltimore! Post a comment to win, and if you aren’t the winner, I’ll give you a discount code for Percona Live as a consolation prize. Here’s the catch: you have to find at least one thing wrong with the following typical logrotate [...]
Introducing our Percona Live speakers
May 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
We have mostly finalized the Percona Live schedule at this point, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to introduce who’s going to be speaking and what they’ll cover. A brief explanation first: we’ve personally recruited the speakers, which is why it has been a slow process to finalize and get abstracts on the [...]
