Percona will be in Chicago and London the week of April 8th delivering two 2-day MySQL workshops. For our MPB readers, we are offering a 15% discount. Just use MPB15A when purchasing your tickets to one or both MySQL workshops. Scaling and Optimization for MySQL on Monday & Tuesday, April 8 & 9 This MySQL workshop [...]
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 [...]
Meet Percona Team at OSCON
July 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Yes, We will be at OSCON next week. I will be talking about Optimizing MySQL Configuration and host a BOF on MySQL Sharding Replication and Clustering if you’re interested in any of these technologies please come by and share your story. I would love to see both users and technology vendors working in this field. [...]
Is your MySQL Application having Busy IO by Oracle Measures ?
January 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
Preparing Choosing Storage Systems for MySQL talk for Percona Live in Washington,DC I ran into great paper called Sane SAN 2010 by James Morle from Scale Abilities – and Oracle consulting company. It is worth to read for variety of reason yet for this post I wanted to mention what James calls “Busy” Oracle database [...]
An update on Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012
November 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
We announced a while back that we were going to continue the traditional MySQL conference in Santa Clara, because O’Reilly wasn’t doing it anymore. But we haven’t given an update in a while. Here’s the current status: We created a conference committee. We created a conference website that allows people to create an account and [...]
Multiple MySQL instances on Fusion-io ioDrive
October 7, 2011 By 6 Comments
It is known that MySQL due internal limitations is not able to utilize all CPU and IO resources available on modern hardware. Idea is to run multiple instances of MySQL to gain better performance on Fusion-io ioDrive card. Full report is available in PDF
Percona’s Sessions at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo
April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I just realized that we haven’t blogged a list of our sessions at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo (#mysqlconf) yet. Here is a hopefully complete list.
Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We’ve published a new white paper that explains how to stop sharding and start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, specifically the Virident tachIOn drive, which offers consistent, low-latency IO performance. I’ve been beating this drum for a while, so it’s a great feeling to have an explicitly recommended reference architecture: buy flash storage first, [...]
Friends of Percona Get 20% Off at the MySQL Conference!
February 24, 2011 By 5 Comments
We have a special Friends of Percona discount code that you can use to get 20% off of registration at the MySQL conference in April: mys11pkb. If you click the image to the left, or this special link, it will pre-fill the code for you when you check out. Read on to see the list [...]
Speaking at MySQL Meetup event in NYC, December 15
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m going to be in NY next week and as part of the meeting I agreed to speak on New York MySQL Meetup. I’m going to speak about Scaling MySQL driven applications by us of caching, replication, sharding and other technologies. Hope to see you there.
