June 19, 2013

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!

…, will talk about MHA for MySQL High Availability in the Cloud Matt Yonkovit, our VP of Consulting, will explain how to work with BigData effectively Justin Swanhart, our Senior MySQL Instructor, will continue the… Consulting featuring great networking possibilities and free drinks for event attendees. If you’re in the Portland area and work with MySQL

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

MySQL can be deployed in several ways, and that means you … an other, and common pitfalls we typically see in our consulting practice. Please let me know if you plan on attending…

Post: Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo

… including presentations on Oracle MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB during the Percona Live MySQL Conference. Percona Live MySQL Conference Keynotes Tuesday … Development, Percona Topic: “Percona Server 5.6” Jay Janssen, Consulting Lead, Percona Topic: “Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster” Mark …

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

… 10th year attending and speaking at the MySQL Users Conference (as the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo was originally called back… as a consultant. Speak. I speak at many shows and this is one of the best for me to present MySQL talks… about Goal-Driven Performance Optimization and Choosing storage systems for MySQL Do Business. This conference was also been a very successful…

Comment: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

MySQL consulting in Israel, but relatively unknown. In Feb 2009 I got an email from one Giuseppe Maxia, then community manager at MySQL… guy I contacted to have my blog aggregated into planet.mysql.com. He wrote how he likes my blogging and that…

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

… do on internal company time, which at that time (in MySQL AB) was aggressively driven by sales. They did not get… a maintainable way. Other examples of this have been where consultants or sales engineers who had skill and familiarity with the… early example of this is classic MySQL replication, which was implemented by Sasha Pachev at MySQL AB around 1999, paid for by…

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

… say that there have been 2 business successes in the MySQL space — MySQL AB itself because they could support/grow an open… on commercial/OEM proprietary licenses & Percona, which is primarily a consulting/services company. I guess you could also add Innobase to…

Post: Webinar: SQL Query Patterns, Optimized

… my experiences solving tough SQL problems for Percona training and consulting, I’ll classify several common types of queries with which… type of query objective, and show how you can use MySQL 5.6 built-in methods to analyze them for optimal…

Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own

… The market is now great for MySQL Consulting. The number of MySQL users is growing rapidly thanks for MySQL Marketing and Sales departments and… with significant MySQL Experience and so MySQL Consultants is great way to solve problems for a lot of companies. Marketing Diving into consulting venture…

Post: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting

… will provide MySQL Consulting services. We’ll focus on MySQL Performance Optimization but will be able to help pretty much with all MySQL related… have something to show. I will continue being part of MySQL Community, hopefully getting even more time for this. I will… on couple of MySQL related Open Source projects. If you have any referrals or leads for my new Consulting Venture let me…