May 24, 2012

Post: Meet the faces of Percona this week in Santa Clara

… written over the last year, have any other feedback, or just want to say hello – we’d like to meet you! From left to right; Morgan, Ewen, Baron, Vadim, Peter, Tom, Ryan. We’ll be at the Percona Performance Conference (Wed & Thur), at the Percona booth inside the exhibition hall (Tue & Wed), and at the Maatkit booth in the dot…

Post: Come Meet Percona In Person Next Week

…’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference in California. Drop by and meet us at booth 308 (for Percona) or 216 (for Maatkit… for you to meet specific Perconians, check this Google calendar for when each consultant should be present at the booth. (Hint: use… be on stage. We look forward to seeing our friends face to face each year in Santa Clara. Please introduce yourself and…

Post: Why message queues and offline processing are so important

… – The system’s capacity is the point where load cannot be increased without degrading response time below acceptable levels. Setting and meeting your response time goal should always be your primary focus, but the closer throughput is to capacity the worse response… much easier to relax response time objectives if the task is not user facing, which is why I often see applications and…