In a few hours I’m leaving for my “SouthEast Meetup Tour” first going to Charlotte where I’m speaking Today, Jan 14, about MySQL Indexing: Best practices on local MySQL Meetup and then going to Atlanta to give the same talk on Atlanta MySQL Meetup Jan 15th. If you’re in the area please come by, I’ll [...]
Reminder: Speaking at MySQL Meetups in Charlotte and Atlanta today and tomorrow.
January 14, 2013 By 2 Comments
Speaking at MySQL Meetups in Atlanta,GA and Charlotte,NC
January 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Start of the year and time for the first speaking tour. This time I will take my MySQL Indexing Best Practices presentation to Charlotte on January 14 and Atlanta on January 15. I think this presentation is great for Meetup as it is both providing a lot of very good ready to use practical advice [...]
Using Percona Server in Production at Percona Live London
November 20, 2012 By 1 Comment
Have you been using Percona Server ? Interested to Try ? Using Percona Server in Production Tutorial at Percona Live, London is a great talk for you. In my experience working with customers I discovered many people are not aware about number of unique features Percona Server offers and how they can help you to [...]
Upcoming Webinar – “Deploy MySQL Like a devops SysAdmin”
October 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“devops” seems to be everywhere now, or at least everyone is talking about it. But what does that really mean? And how does the DBA integrate the movement ? During next week’s webinar, I will explain to you the big principles of the devops culture and illustrate how DBA’s can (must) be part of the [...]
Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages
October 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time. At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy [...]
Tools and Techniques for Index Design Webinar Questions Followup
October 4, 2012 By 5 Comments
I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of Tools and Techniques for Index Design. Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you’ll be emailed a link to the recording. I’d like to invite folks who are interested in tools for query optimization to attend the new Percona [...]
Upcoming Webinar on Index Design
October 1, 2012 By 2 Comments
The proper tools and techniques for designing indexes in MySQL is a broad subject, which causes grief for many developers and database administrators. I’ll present a webinar Tools and Techniques for Index Design on October 3, 2012 at 10:00am Pacific time to give an overview of the best practices and procedures for you to build index [...]
Automation: A case for synchronous replication
September 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Just yesterday I wrote about math of automatic failover today I’ll share my thoughts about what makes MySQL failover different from many other components and why asynchronous nature of standard replication solution is causing problems with it. Lets first think about properties of simple components we fail over – web servers, application servers etc. We [...]
The Math of Automated Failover
September 18, 2012 By 9 Comments
There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on production incident which GitHub disclosed. Here is my take on it. When we look at systems providing high availability we can identify 2 cases of system breaking down. First is when the system itself has a bug or limitations which does not [...]
MySQL Indexing Best Practices: Webinar Questions Followup
August 16, 2012 By 4 Comments
I had a lot of questions on my MySQL Indexing: Best Practices Webinar (both recording and slides are available now) We had lots of questions. I did not have time to answer some and others are better answered in writing anyway. Q: One developer on our team wants to replace longish (25-30) indexed varchars with [...]
