This week’s TGIF give-away contest is a day early, and it’s a guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you. Go there to read the full post, and watch @engineyard’s Twitter feed for the chance to enter the contest for free [...]
Percona Live London: CFP, Registration, Sponsorships Open
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The first two Percona Live MySQL conferences in San Francisco and New York were sold-to-capacity events with the bonus of great evening parties. Percona Live’s huge popularity convinced us to take the conference series on the road to London, England. We also decided to broaden learning, content, networking, presentation and marketing opportunities for attendees and [...]
Speaking on MySQL Meetup in London, July 18
July 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
I’m speaking at the great multi-speaker MySQL Meetup event taking place in London, 18th of July. I’ll talk about approaches to application scalability which is one of my favorite topics and would be a good fit both for MySQL DBAs and Developers. Make sure you register on meetup page as otherwise you will not be [...]
Just hours left until Percona Live sells out!
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We’re seeing a spike of last-minute ticket sales for Percona Live New York. Meanwhile, we’re assembling bags and unpacking t-shirts at the venue. If you want to come, buy your ticket now — we’re rapidly selling out the remaining tickets! Remember, if all the tickets are sold, you can still come to the evening event [...]
Free Percona Live tickets and Percona Support contract!
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just a couple of announcements for Percona Live: we’re giving away free tickets through Engine Yard, and we’ve arranged our evening open-bar event. For a chance to win a free ticket, check out the guest blog post I wrote for Engine Yard on how to make Rails migrations faster and safer. In other news, Percona [...]
Introducing our Percona Live speakers
May 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
We have mostly finalized the Percona Live schedule at this point, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to introduce who’s going to be speaking and what they’ll cover. A brief explanation first: we’ve personally recruited the speakers, which is why it has been a slow process to finalize and get abstracts on the [...]
Percona Live gets bigger: two more speaker tracks!
May 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
We’ve just rented more rooms, and published an additional two tracks of speakers for Percona Live in New York on May 26th. The schedule is here. There is a long queue of speaker submissions we’re finalizing and will be adding to the schedule, to fill the few empty slots in those new rooms. My favorite [...]
Win free MySQL Conference Passes!
April 7, 2011 By 31 Comments
Want a free pass to the O’Reilly MySQL Conference next week in Santa Clara, California? It’s the MySQL conference, and the session lineup is awesome this year. We’ve got several free passes to give away. Post a comment here to claim your spot. First come, first served! (But make sure you are serious about committing [...]
Percona Live is on Wednesday – thank you to all our sponsors
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Percona Live is in only two days away – and we’ve managed to completely sell out (something I predicted earlier). Before I go into details, I want to thank three sponsors who have been absolutely awesome: Clustrix is providing an open bar all evening, New Relic is providing all attendees with lunch and Fusion-io is [...]
Percona Live: Less than 25 tickets remain
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We’re down to less than 25 tickets remaining for Percona Live. If you are planning on attending, it might be a good idea to purchase your ticket(s) as soon as possible – we are expecting to sell out.
