The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 was April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. This was Percona’s second year organizing the conference and we were very pleased with the event and the feedback (check the #perconalive hashtag for a sampling of the great comments such as this from Tom Krouper or this from John [...]
Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!
April 16, 2013 By 6 Comments
Today’s blog post diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering blog, and is Part 1 of 2. Thank you to Kyle Oppenheim at Groupon for contributing to this project and post. We’ll be posting Part 2 on Thursday. I’ll be at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and [...]
Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
April 15, 2013 By 1 Comment
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo begins next Monday and runs April 22-25, 2013. Attendees will see great keynotes from leaders in the industry including representatives from Oracle, Amazon Web Services, HP, Continuent, and Percona. They can also participate in thought provoking Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday night and the Wednesday night [...]
Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup
January 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012
October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
Over 200 attendees attended last week’s Percona Live NY event. This year we structured event different than in 2011 with Tutorial Day allowing for in-depth 3 hour presentations for those looking to dive deep into specific topics. We also added an Expo Hall which allowed a lot of MySQL Ecosystem participant to meet their prospective [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event
April 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the event made a good comeback after last year’s event, but more importantly, the mood was strongly optimistic. I think a lot of people arrived with [...]
Testing Percona Replication Manager (prm) with Vagrant
April 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
If you have recently attended some Percona Live events or if you have checked some slides from Yves Trudeau, you may have heard about Percona Replication Manager (PRM), a new high availability tool for MySQL. Percona Live DC 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 PRM is an OCF Resource Agent for Corosync [...]
Slides from Percona Live, Washington, DC are available
January 20, 2012 By 7 Comments
If you’ve missed Percona Live in Washington,DC and even if you did not you should be happy to know we have now published slides from majority of talks at this conference. Enjoy! This conference had great talks, whenever you’re Beginner or Advanced when it comes to MySQL. Also remember not to miss MySQL Conference in [...]
Must read talk from MySQL Conference and Expo
May 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
I started going over the slides from talks from MySQL Conference and Expo 2011 to pick set of must see presentations and publish the list, but this is not happening due to lack of time. Instead I’m only going to recommend 1 talk, from list of tutorials I had a chance to review. If you [...]
Slides from my Sphinx talk at RIT++ 2010
April 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
While the majority of Percona gang travelled to California for the MySQL event of the year, I headed in the opposite direction to Moscow for RIT++ 2010 conference where I presented a talk on Sphinx. You can get the PDF file here – Improving MySQL-based applications performance with Sphinx. I have been invited [...]
