… “amazing” and James Briggs said that “Percona did a great job.” We appreciate all the kind words, but even more than… call for papers for Percona Live New York is now open and you can submit your proposal by visiting the website…
Comment: Btw xtrabackup is not only backup..
March 7, 2012 By 12 Comments
… software that we spend literally hours developing. A pretty thankless job, all told, and when you start throwing F-Bombs around… for free on forum.percona.com, too. Try developing some open-source software and balancing that with making a living, and…
Post: MySQL Geek Job Openings
May 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The consulting load keeps increasing so we’re looking for some help. This job would be perfect for someone interested in high performance and scaling with decent knowledge of MySQL and eagerness to learn more. We do encourage people from all countries to apply.
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
… rights to our codebase. That aside, the Percona contributions to open-source are not a potluck dinner where everyone brings something… builds, and there is no sense in doing a halfway job of it. So that removes the motivation for us or… “yes” when we ask them to agree to open-source the features. Open-source is not a passing fad. It’s not…
Post: Innodb Performance Optimization Basics
November 1, 2007 By 70 Comments
Interviewing people for our Job Openings I like to ask them a basic question – if you …
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… a little bit. This fits well with our philosophy of openness. It also shocks people sometimes — “you’re giving away the… what we think is best for you, which is our job). After the kickoff call, we write some notes, and then… client’s benefit. It’s like knowing openings in chess — the great chess players study openings exhaustively, but they don’t robotically…
Comment: What to tune in MySQL Server after installation
September 5, 2008 By 116 Comments
… base project in which we have one job table and one url master table. Job table contains 15000000 records and url table… each and every day there are near 100000 new job record inserted into job table. Right now out both table type is… Key_reads 72073 Key_write_requests 678314 Key_writes 430602 Open_tables 561 Open_files 278 Thanks !
Post: Percona is hiring performance experts
February 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
…. The demand for our services is strong, and we have openings for more experts in the next couple of months. Let… for people who are top-level, senior experts in LAMP/Open-Source performance and scalability. Most of our work involves MySQL… “proficiency with Microsoft Office”). You cannot fake it in this job. We generally start off with a try-it-out period…
Post: linux.conf.au 2012 roundup
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… on a variety of topics – everything from filesystem performance to open hardware, to repurposing existing hardware to upcoming challenges for the… amazing. Go watch it. The organisers did a truly excellent job at selecting keynotes this year. Keynote – Jacob Appelbaum This is… Desktop Home Hacks This Old Code, or Renovating Dusty Old Open Source For Fun and Profit This is especially interesting as…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…, but we make our money from services, not software. Our job is to tell our customers what we think is best… this is Percona XtraBackup. We have also worked to create open-source tools for monitoring, query analysis, replication management, and other… versions. And we can and will continue to provide an open-source database server that delivers improved performance and functionality to…
