We announced a while back that we were going to continue the traditional MySQL conference in Santa Clara, because O’Reilly wasn’t doing it anymore. But we haven’t given an update in a while. Here’s the current status: We created a conference committee. We created a conference website that allows people to create an account and [...]
Slides from Percona Live,London are now available
November 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
We had a lot of great technical presentations at Percona Live, London If you did not have a chance to attend or if you did but could not be at 5 rooms at the same time you can check out slides which have been just made available for download for most of the talks. Enjoy [...]
Free Percona Live London Reception at Revolution Bar
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Even if you didn’t make it to Percona Live London, you can get the chance to hang out with us. We’re giving a reception at the Revolution Bar America Square just a few meters walk from the Tower Hill Underground between 17:30 and 19:30 today (Tuesday 25 October 2011). All friends of Percona are welcome. See you [...]
Find where your data is replicated, win a Percona Live ticket
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Percona Live London starts on Monday, so this is the last in the series of free-Percona-Live tickets we’ll give away. But first — have you ever wondered what servers are in your MySQL replication hierarchy? We have, too. As consultants, a lot of times we need to get a quick overview of the whole replication [...]
Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what + TGIF Contest!
October 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
On Oct. 25th I will be presenting my conference session “Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what” at the Percona Live London Conference. Considering their is a variety of highly knowledgeable MySQL experts speaking at this event I wanted to give my talk a special plug so you won’t miss THIS knowledgeable MySQL expert [...]
Speaking at HighLoad conference, Moscow, Russia, Training and Hiring
September 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
I’m going to be speaking on Highload++ conference October 3,4 in Moscow, Russia. This is a great conference which gathers amazing quality of speakers from Russia and around the world and I usually learn a lot and enjoy talking to a lot of great people on this event. My talk is going to be about [...]
This week’s TGIF Percona Live ticket giveaway
September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for entering the contest are on their blog, at the top of my recent guest post about covering indexes.
NDB tutorial at Percona Live London + Free TIcket Give Away
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 – [...]
Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Replication + Early Bird Registration Extended!
September 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
Percona is happy to announce that our conference schedule is up online! We are thrilled to be able to offer such a wide variety of talks from so many MySQL experts. Come see Devananda van der Veen a Percona Consultant speak on Replication. “Replication is one of MySQL’s most widely-used features, and despite significant improvements over the years, [...]
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 [...]
