I’m going to be speaking on Highload++ conference October 3,4 in Moscow, Russia. This is a great conference which gathers amazing quality of speakers from Russia and around the world and I usually learn a lot and enjoy talking to a lot of great people on this event. My talk is going to be about [...]
Speaking at HighLoad conference, Moscow, Russia, Training and Hiring
September 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 18th
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week wasn’t so active in terms of new development, because many of us were at the MySQL conference, of course. However, we did push out the XtraBackup 1.6 release, and began work on backporting some features from MySQL 5.6 to 5.1 for a certain large customer. Several of the features we’ve added in 5.0 [...]
Two quick site updates: videos online; Kindle edition
March 22, 2011 By 12 Comments
Two notes for readers. First, we have been publishing a great deal of video material on our companion site Percona.TV. This includes our recordings from past conferences, user group meetings, screencasts, and most recently our webinars. (I hate the proprietary formats and silly technical restrictions that the webinar companies impose. I figured out how to [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 19th
March 20, 2011 By 2 Comments
Here’s what is new in Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup since last week. We are working on compiling and checking download statistics for both pieces of software. The preliminary numbers are far higher than I thought they would be. Both Percona Server and XtraBackup are becoming amazingly popular. I am aware of deployments running into [...]
Team Percona back from Cancun, Mexico
February 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
All Perconians are back home after spending January 19-25 near Cancun, Mexico for our fourth annual company meeting. A total of 60 people gathered at the Grand Palladium Resort & Spa on the Maya Riviera. 39 were Percona employees and 21 were family and guests. Earlier Percona gatherings were held in Egypt (2007), Turkey (2008), [...]
Upcoming Webinar “Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup and Tungsten”
February 2, 2011 By 3 Comments
On February 10, We will be giving a webinar “Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup and Tungsten”. This is joint Continuent and Percona Webinar with full description: Big data is a big problem for growing SaaS businesses and large web applications. In this webinar, we’ll teach you how to set up Percona Server, XtraBackup, [...]
Percona is looking for a Support Engineer
November 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
As part of our growth process and with the introduction of our Support and Maintenance services, we’re looking for a new Support Engineer.
You would be a part of a unit that operates 24×7 and be the first line of contact for our customers.
Responsibilities include handling or dispatching emergencies and support requests, triaging incoming issues, and ensuring customers always get the attention they need.
Lost innodb tables, xfs and binary grep
November 9, 2010 By 12 Comments
Before I start a story about the data recovery case I worked on yesterday, here’s a quick tip – having a database backup does not mean you can restore from it. Always verify your backup can be used to restore the database! If not automatically, do this manually, at least once a month. No, seriously [...]
Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
We’ve just announced a new support offering for MySQL. There’s a press release here, and product information page here. But what does this new service really mean for you, in practical terms? This is actually important — it will open up a range of new choices for you. I’ll explain two major points that matter [...]
Why message queues and offline processing are so important
August 10, 2010 By 3 Comments
If you read Percona’s whitepaper on Goal-Driven Performance Optimization, you will notice that we define performance using the combination of three separate terms. You really want to read the paper, but let me summarize it here: Response Time – This is the time required to complete a desired task. Throughput – Throughput is measured in [...]
