In comments to my previous post I got number number of comments saying if MySQL would not have multiple storage engine interface it would not allow people to do various very cool stuff. And I agree with this. The question is how cool you want your database operation to be ? Visiting customers I see [...]
Should I buy a Fast SSD or more memory?
April 8, 2010 By 10 Comments
While a scale-out solution has traditionally been popular for MySQL, it’s interesting to see what room we now have to scale up – cheap memory, fast storage, better power efficiency. There certainly are a lot of options now – I’ve been meeting about a customer/week using Fusion-IO cards. One interesting choice I’ve seen people make [...]
Percona is hiring a Shift Support Captain
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Percona is hiring. As part of our growth process, we introduced the role of the Shift Support Captain in 2009 (see the original announcement here) to provide customers with a 24×7 technical contact person. The Shift Support Team dispatches incoming emergencies, assigns new issues, handles or escalates incoming Nagios alerts from some customers, and in [...]
Onsite and Remote – getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
At Percona we provide services both Onsite – visiting the customers and Remote – logging in to their systems or communicating via email,phone,instant messaging. We believe both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks and mixing them right way allows you to get your problems solved most efficient way.
Percona team at Turkey
December 8, 2008 By 7 Comments
Being completely distributed team, meetings are very important for us and this time we went to the Turkey in the end of October (yes, yes I could be faster with sharing photos) This went we went to Turkey, Antalya region, which is a destination which is very easy to reach from Europe as well as [...]
New Presentations published (Meetup and Highload)
November 7, 2008 By 1 Comment
We have finally found the time to update out presentation pages – we’ve added the presentation on MySQL Scaling by Sharding and Replication as well as Russian Language presentations I’ve given at HighLoad++ conference back in October. Innodb Scalability and New Features (Russian), Scaling MySQL-powered Web Sites by Sharding and Replication (Russian), Wonderful World of [...]
What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
Kaj wrote me email yesterday asking if I was sleeping for a whole week or may be dead because I’m probably the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on extremely busy travel schedule last week, so I’m just finding [...]
Back from company meeting in Hurghada, Egypt
December 12, 2007 By 8 Comments
So we’re back from the company meeting which took place last week in Hurghada, Egypt. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people for the first time in person to work together and have some fun.
Packing for company meeting in Egypt
November 29, 2007 By 5 Comments
Our company, Percona is even more Virtual than MySQL AB – we have no offices and 100% of staff members work out of their homes (or traveling, onsite with customers etc). We also probably have just couple of cities where more than one Employee lives. Working as a virtual company has a lot of benefits [...]
MySQL Consulting – Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
