…, but this is what makes it interesting. I am in open source business myself, so I understand your sentiments, however I can… theoretical question for personal curiosity. There is big difference when problem is considered solved for developers and for ops. For developer – push in source code tree – problem solved. For ops – it should be available on official distribution…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
…, if the work is open-source, we generally run this as a “less-for-profit” part of our business. I’ll clarify… version of the server. Customers pay us to solve their problems now. This means that one way or another, we’re… “yes” when we ask them to agree to open-source the features. Open-source is not a passing fad. It’s not…
Post: Can having information public hurt consulting business ?
April 30, 2008 By 9 Comments
…background to quickly find right solution for the problem. We know extensive knowledge is important for complex … case surely having such instructions public can hurt business badly. In other cases value could be …it does not apply to the industry of Open Source software consulting we’re working on. …
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
… our business goals, and to our customers’ goals. And we think the best way to do that is by adhering to open… continue what we are doing: diagnose and solve the root problems our customers experience, and build new features to overcome limitations… advance MySQL and open-source software, including Oracle, and look forward to a bright and prosperous future for our businesses. Sincerely, The…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
…enough lead generation for us to keep us very busy. You can work remotely Before leaving MySQL I …things may cause a problems. People are scarce We also seems to have the same problem as everybody else who…we rather would not disclose for now. In the Open Source area we work on Sphinx Search as …
Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
… of your problems quickly. In my experience as small business owner the problem tends to happen when you either get some problems or need… good news for smaller companies like Percona, Pythian, Proven Scaling, Open Query. All of these companies should offer more personal professional… cases when decision makers are technically savvy to fully understand problems to the full depth. UPDATE: Reponding to Paul and Sherri…
Post: XtraDB: The Top 10 enhancements
August 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
…). Â One problem in particular that this causes, is that InnoDB the algorithm which chooses if InnoDB is too busy to flush… docs). Â The built-in InnoDB status also has some problems with the placement of items (a long transaction list will… (see docs). Data dictionary control – Once an InnoDB table is opened it is never freed from the in-memory data dictionary…
Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
November 12, 2006 By 31 Comments
…images which also does not need MySQL connection open. In optimal configuration with Apache talking to …apache children. But you need to keep them busy all the time so they should not …could recycle connections easily without any problems. In later versions number of problems however arose – If you …
Post: Living with backups
November 6, 2008 By 28 Comments
… act as in all-you-can-eat bar. With a busy database server it may turn out that running a simple… of that would support it well. The problem is when accessing a file that was opened with O_DIRECT flag, the file… precautions have been taken, there are still chances for performance problems to happen on the working instance of MySQL. Such danger…
Post: HighLoad 2007 Review
October 6, 2007 By 1 Comment
… late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it. Lets start with bright… with no place to sit. Registration was the other problem. Registration opened at 9 and sessions were supposed to start at 10… special speaker registration as well. Another problem worth to mention was schedule. Because registration problem sessions went late and other issues agenda…
