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 [...]
MySQL data via a NoSQL solution, Free ticket to Percona Live London
September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Tutorial Insights for Percona Live, London
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We have a great line up of Tutorials on Percona Live, London. I hand picked number of them after seeing outstanding speaker Performance in other Places. Let me tell in little bit more details about people we have invited and their talks. Yoshinori Matsunobu Talk on Linux Hardware and Optimizations for MySQL at Oreilly MySQL [...]
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 [...]
Percona Live London: CFP, Registration, Sponsorships Open
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The first two Percona Live MySQL conferences in San Francisco and New York were sold-to-capacity events with the bonus of great evening parties. Percona Live’s huge popularity convinced us to take the conference series on the road to London, England. We also decided to broaden learning, content, networking, presentation and marketing opportunities for attendees and [...]
Percona Live London!
July 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
The first Percona Live Conferences in San Francisco and New York were such wonderful successes that we have been inspired to take it across the ocean into the UK. We are therefore proud to announce that our next Percona Live Conference will be held London October 24-25, 2011 . Registration is now open and we [...]
Speaking on MySQL Meetup in London, July 18
July 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
I’m speaking at the great multi-speaker MySQL Meetup event taking place in London, 18th of July. I’ll talk about approaches to application scalability which is one of my favorite topics and would be a good fit both for MySQL DBAs and Developers. Make sure you register on meetup page as otherwise you will not be [...]
Percona Training in London and Frankfurt
December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For those that missed it – last week we added training in Frankfurt and London to our website. This includes our new Operations Training announced in September. (While in Europe, we’d love to speak at your meetup group on Percona Server and/or MySQL Optimization. If you’re a meetup organizer in London or Paris, please feel [...]
Announcing New Training Venues for May-August
April 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
We’ve just launched training for London, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Orlando, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago & Washington DC. This is in addition to Los Angeles, Raleigh & Toronto – which had previously been scheduled. If you organize a meetup group in one of these cities, get in touch. In [...]
