May 25, 2012

Post: Onsite and Remote - getting best of both worlds

At Percona we provide services both Onsite – visiting the customers and Remote – logging in to their systems or communicating via email,phone… which when can benefit from remote followups to validate changes and provide further advice. Multi day onsite visits require a bit more… I mentioned before mixing Onsite and Remote work can be indeed the best mix especially for the complex projects. Onsite visit is great…

Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own

… less risky, while remote consulting would work great. Interesting enough in many cases Remote Consulting turns more efficient than onsite – It happened many times for me to come onsite to figure out… working remotely. If you’re working onsite you get 8 billable hours per day, 40 billable hours per week, when you work remotely

Comment: Onsite and Remote - getting best of both worlds

… does “remote database management”, we actually do both onsite and remote work. I think of a database as a garden — the onsite work is good for the bigger projects, like planning out landscaping (and maybe even doing it) and planting, and the remote… communication is good, even the bigger projects can be done remotely.

Post: Percona is hiring performance experts

… lot of different types of work. It is not all remote DBA, nor is it all urgent troubleshooting or performance audits… work remotely, from our homes. There is currently not much required travel for most of us; a few of us do onsite