MySQL 5.6 was made generally available as a production-ready solution earlier this month. This release comes about 2 years after MySQL 5.5 was released, but MySQL 5.6 contains improvements started long before that – for example, work on the Innodb Full Text Search project was started over 6 years ago, in addition with many optimizer [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: The talks I want to see
February 12, 2013 By 4 Comments
I’ve been woefully neglectful of my responsibilities to post regularly about Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 (PLCME 2013), but here’s some highlights of what I am planning to attend from the schedule. Read to the very bottom for the chance to win a free full pass to the conference! When picking talks to attend, [...]
Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup
January 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29
January 10, 2013 By 4 Comments
At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]
Percona and the MariaDB Foundation
December 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I though it would be worth it to describe where we stand on this and related matters. First, let me say the creation of theMariaDB Foundation is a good thing for the MariaDB Community and I’m [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
December 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
As Percona Live London is raging in the UK, I thought it fitting to remind everyone about the next big Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, Californa on April 22-25, 2013. You can register NOW for this conference, and the Super Saving Registration deadline ends on December 28th, so be sure to [...]
Speaking at Percona Live London 2012: Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell
November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If you are interested by a great and revolutionary HA solution for MySQL or even if you already have some experience with PXC and/or Galera, I invite you to attend the tutorial I will deliver in Percona Live MySQL Conference London 2012 (PLUK2012), December 3rd : Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell. Small amount of [...]
Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012
October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
Over 200 attendees attended last week’s Percona Live NY event. This year we structured event different than in 2011 with Tutorial Day allowing for in-depth 3 hour presentations for those looking to dive deep into specific topics. We also added an Expo Hall which allowed a lot of MySQL Ecosystem participant to meet their prospective [...]
Fusion-io atomic writes and DirectFS
September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Not so far ago Fusion-io announced SDK which provides direct API access to Fusion ioMemory(tm) in addition to providing a native filesystem (directFS) with a goal to avoid overhead from kernel and regular Linux filesystems: ext4 and xfs. Fusion-io will explain these features during our Percona Live New York conference and share performance numbers. It [...]
Great Talks on Percona Live,NY!, Free Pass opportunity inside
September 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
You surely have heard about Percona Live,NY taking place October 1-2 in New York, you however might have been wondering what kind of talks you would see on this event and why would should you attend. The day one of this event is Tutorial day, which is long (half to a full day) presentations which [...]
