June 20, 2013

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

… investment in MySQL development. At the same time, a thriving ecosystem of potential alternatives and complementary products has emerged to provide MySQL users… ecosystem of MySQL-related products and services from MySQL itself – both in terms of a commercial product, and also a development project. The…. And if you cannot make it this year, watch this blog following the conference and we’ll announce when and where…

Post: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

Today’s blog post diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering blog, and… complicated. To manage this process, we use a tool co-developed with Percona. “Warm standby server”? Did you catch that? What… loaded from disk. Replaying Queries Working with Groupon, we have developed a solution to keep the standby server’s caches hot…

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

…your product. Growing public knowledge: discussions on blogs, forums, social networks. Well, of course, … the company eventually could not fund further development, and this engine is pretty much dead …In principle, anyone who has an interest in MySQL and MariaDB surviving should contact the MariaDB…

Post: Why MySQL Performance at Low Concurrency is Important

MySQL performance at low concurrency is important for you. I decided to write about this topic as a number of recent blog posts and articles look at MySQL performance starting with certain concurrency as the low point. For example, MySQL 5.6 DBA and Developer… jobs are written to be single-threaded. MySQL replication is single-thread too, and MySQL 5.6 brings some abilities of parallel…

Comment: Repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication by injecting empty transactions

Maybe wrong place to post this, but as its MySQL 5.6 related, I thought I would bring up the … it) What is going on with the mysql 5.5 / 5.6 changelogs on MySQL.com. Anyone else noticed how extremely quiet… bug-free MySQL release… or they are taking bug fixing / development behind closed doors I believe it deserves some kind of blog post…

Post: Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!

MySQL development team at Oracle with making this release happen. In this blog post, I will not go into a features overview of MySQL… for MySQL, Drizzle, and Oracle MySQL, MySQL 5.6 is fully supported by our MySQL Consulting,  MySQL Support, MySQL Server Development, and MySQL Remote DBA teams: Our MySQL Consulting…

Post: An update on Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012

…, please do. Tell your friends; put promotional banners on your blog; and most of all, help us get great session proposals… they can benefit MySQL users. And I think we always just relied on a cadre of the core MySQL developers to submit talks about what is new in MySQL, the MySQL roadmap for the future, and…

Post: MySQL Performance Blog now uses Sphinx for Site Search

… on MySQL Performance Blog. Today we have published new search functionality for our site which is based on Sphinx. We have developed it… for fun and for SEO. Hope this addition will make MySQL Performance Blog more useful for you. UPDATE: For those looking to…

Post: Percona response to recent MySQL security bugs

… and Percona Server. Usually we have inherited security fixes from MySQL when we have updated Percona Server to be based off a new Oracle MySQL release. In this case however, Oracle has been incredibly quiet… mailing list threads Open Query blog post on MariaDB updates Sergei Golubchik (long time MySQL developer, current MariaDB developer) responds on oss-sec list…

Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software

… functionality for MySQL. We have a team of dedicated MySQL developers working on the server and on ExtraDB, and a dedicated Maatkit developer. Other… not released yet. The general public. People comment on our blog posts, or send us email, and so forth. We notice… working for a profit — part of our business is custom MySQL development, after all — but we discount it. The second way is…