I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
March 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev: Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication Baron Schwartz: EXPLAIN Demystified Vadim Tkachenko: An Overview of Flash Storage [...]
OpenSQLCamp is comming close
November 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
OpenSQLCamp is coming close and it is your last change to register. I’m very excited about this event as it looks to be marketing free community gathering, having much fewer attendees but many of them are well known MySQL Professionals. Besides hopefully in depth sessions this promises a lot of good informal chats. Also as [...]
Worse than DDOS
August 18, 2008 By 5 Comments
Today I worked on rather interesting customer problem. Site was subject what was considered DDOS and solution was implemented to protect from it. However in addition to banning the intruders IPs it banned IPs of web services which were very actively used by the application which caused even worse problems by consuming all apache slots [...]
MySQL on OSCON
July 26, 2007 By 13 Comments
Interesting enough this year people at OSCON do not show to much interest in the MySQL, and Databases for that reason. Our talk comparing performance of MySQL Storage Engines had probably 20-30 people, Monty’s talk on MySQL Source Code had about same number, and as Monty told me he never had so few people on [...]
PHP Sessions – Files vs Database Based
March 27, 2007 By 38 Comments
One may think changing PHP session handler from file based to database driven is fully transparent. In many cases it is, sometimes however it may cause some unexpected problems as happened to one of our customers. If you use file based sessions PHP will lock session file for whole script execution duration, which means all [...]
Back from OpenSource Database Conference
November 9, 2006 By 1 Comment
I’m just back from OpenSource Database Conference and PHP International Conference which took place in Frankfurt. I’ve uploaded slides for two talks I’ve been giving which you might want to check out. In general Database portion of the conference was a bit boring. May be because it was not widely announced or may be for [...]
Speaking on OpenSource Database Conference, Frankfurt
October 26, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I’ll have two sessions on upcoming OpenSource Database Conference in Frankfurt 6-8 November. One session will be general MySQL Performance Optimization workshop the other will be focused on Innodb architecture and optimization. If you’re visiting this event or International PHP Conference which runs parallel to this even drop me a note and we can chat. [...]
Test Drive of Solid
September 22, 2006 By 5 Comments
Not so long ago Solid released solidDB for MySQL Beta 3 so I decided now is time to take a bit closer look on new transactional engine for MySQL. While my far goal is the performance and scalability testing before I wanted to look at basic transactional properties such as deadlock detection, select for update [...]
