June 19, 2013

Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)

… best meets your needs. With simple services or development systems, many people are using a single server with some backups configured, and… a restore is needed. As the application evolves, additional requirements will appear like hot backups, online schema changes, replication based high…

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference 2013 wrap-up

… Tinley or this from SF MySQL Meetup). There are so many people involved with putting on this event that it’s impossible… MySQL YouTube channel (please visit the channel often as we will be posting webinar recordings to this channel going forward as… for two upcoming Percona Live events. Percona Live London 2013 will be November 11-12 at the Millenium Gloucester Conference Center…

Post: What I'm looking forward to at Percona Live (MySQL Users Conference)

… new friends or have a chance to meet, in person, people who I previously only connected with online. I enjoy meeting people and if you’re at the conference this year please come over to say “hi.” Meet New Companies. Many companies… year in addition to my Keynote and Panel sessions I will give an Innodb and Performance Optimization Tutorial as well as…

Post: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

…, known as asynchronous repair, that most people think of). Callaghan’s Law But … count + 1 where achievement = ‘killed_troll’; How many players might accomplish this achievement at the…will acquire the necessary row locks while it commits (which will take the 1 RTT).  The other transactions will

Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released

… 2.1 has been a great success, and people have been using it for evermore difficult and … installed (easily available through your package manager), it will use a secure (https) connection over the web, ….2 for MySQL is an exciting release with many new and helpful features. Users are encouraged to …

Comment: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)

… the total market for software is 10.000 installations you will unlikely get viral effect to the same extent and need…. The competition also matters – for many market areas there are no good open source software so people use proprietary licensed software as… data sets you will not see large benefits. The Cloud might change a lot in this game on many levels as it…

Comment: MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

… here don’t get stuck like that. Wonder if “too many URLs” is the spam signal but URLs for bugs.mysql…_io_capacity, but they didn’t and a lot of people are going to waste time and lose performance because of…/bug.php?id=68481 I am not sure this one will be fixed. Too bad, as Percona has a fix for…

Comment: SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL

…not happen, so now by saying this I will have started a likely flame war discussion. The…the kernel and the threads, as with too many threads, the system spends more time managing threads… and benchmarking is necessary. I would also caution people to clearly understand and test, what are “connections”…

Post: How many people will leave MySQL now ?

will still enforce complicated legal, financial and informational procedures especially as it is public company. What always surprised me in such people is how many people hate new policies/management/culture compared to amount of people who actually decide to…

Comment: How many people will leave MySQL now ?

“How many people will leave MySQL now ?” is a legit question to ask. Personally I feel sad to see Ronald and Anthony leave. That said: “How many people will join MySQL now ?” is another legit question. I can’t look into the future, but I hope there will be lots.