… 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… expect to start resting or go to bed. We have number of customers from Russian speaking Americans or Americans having outsourced development to Russian…
Post: Percona turns two today !
August 1, 2008 By 13 Comments
… to develop company on our own pace and have no obligations to deliver huge returns to anyone. We believe as consulting company we do not need these to… pressure on our employees and retaining team values. For us with Vadim the the change was the serious one. As we started delivering…
Post: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting
July 31, 2006 By 23 Comments
… starting 1st of August. This is surely not news for my collegues and friends who knew this is comming. We’re starting our own company which will provide MySQL Consulting services. We’ll focus on MySQL Performance Optimization but will be able to help pretty…
Post: How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition
November 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
… when busy people attempt to get time to write a book. I started working on book Outline with Andy Oram (our great editor) about a… involved in MySQL Support, MySQL Consulting, Documentation, MySQL Training while working for MySQL and now on his own. Finally we were joined by Baron who could also add value to the Book. I always…
Post: Percona is hiring performance experts
February 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
…start off with a try-it-out period of several months to see how things go. Due to the above considerations and our…consulting organization. If you think you’re a good candidate, please fill out the contact form on our…
Post: Economics of Performance Optimization
March 13, 2008 By 9 Comments
…starts from quite serious load to start with – like if you work for Yahoo and develop the new “Applet” which will be featured on…to have higher cost of downtime. So now what is about using your Own Resources vs Hiring Consultants… I’m promoting our Services. Indeed I am. I truly think our services is …
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
…, they start to stick in our brains and we eventually put them on the TODO list. The order of priorities is this: paying customers, obvious needs for our consulting…re going to be maintaining the custom patches in our own tree and making our own builds…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
…RAID and I did not want to rely just on daily backups we got new … one! 3-4 hours before anyone even starts looking at your problem this is …down most of rare offended customers. In our Consulting Work we also follow the same principle -…get some rack space and buy my own servers instead. P.S Some may …
Post: Traffic Tricks by Hosting Providers.
October 17, 2007 By 13 Comments
… of traffic, however as I started to put any traffic on it I found my server is … as setting up your own location is more involved you tend to check things more carefully. …we plan to host our consulting business web sites MySQLPerformanceBlog, Percona high quality dedicated server, mainly to keep it …
