I’m pleased to announce the first of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 keynote speakers and new sponsors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Clustrix, Scalebase, PalominoDB, Database Trends & Applications, and Linux Journal. We are also now accepting applications for the DotOrg Pavilion. Also, nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 MySQL [...]
New Keynote Speakers and Sponsors and Applications Open for DotOrg Pavilion for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Thank You Percona Live London 2012 Attendees!
December 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
Percona Live London wrapped up last week to very positive reviews from attendees and sponsors like those from Johan De Meersman. Percona was pleased to provide an engaging event for MySQL community members that featured engaging tutorials, highly rated breakout sessions, a very well-attended Tuesday community networking reception sponsored by Clustrix, and keynotes from a [...]
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 [...]
Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO
August 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
Spoiler alert: If your boss does not need an elephant, he is definitely NOT going to buy one from you. If he will, he will regret it and eventually you will too. I must appologize to the reader who was expecting to find an advice on selling useless goods to his boss. While I do [...]
SQL Injection Questions Followup
July 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
I presented a webinar today about SQL Injection, to try to clear up some of the misconceptions that many other blogs and articles have about this security risk. You can register for the webinar even now that I’ve presented it, and you’ll be emailed a link to the recording, which will be available soon. During [...]
Meet Percona Team at OSCON
July 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Yes, We will be at OSCON next week. I will be talking about Optimizing MySQL Configuration and host a BOF on MySQL Sharding Replication and Clustering if you’re interested in any of these technologies please come by and share your story. I would love to see both users and technology vendors working in this field. [...]
Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However, there are still users who want to continue running IBM i and MySQL. That’s why we’re happy to announce that we have assisted Zend to introduce Zend DBi as a drop-in replacement [...]
How We Got Here
April 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
We have spent months planning and preparing for the MySQL conference that begins tomorrow. It seems appropriate to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned for the future. The annual April MySQL conference was a strong and growing event for years, drawing hundreds of [...]
Early Bird Pricing Ends Today for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Early Bird Pricing for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo ends today, March 12th. Hotel room rates at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara go up March 19th, if rooms are still available at that time. Save money on your conference pass and hotel room by registering now. The conference features 72 breakout sessions, an [...]
An update on Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012
November 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
We announced a while back that we were going to continue the traditional MySQL conference in Santa Clara, because O’Reilly wasn’t doing it anymore. But we haven’t given an update in a while. Here’s the current status: We created a conference committee. We created a conference website that allows people to create an account and [...]
