While the majority of Percona gang travelled to California for the MySQL event of the year, I headed in the opposite direction to Moscow for RIT++ 2010 conference where I presented a talk on Sphinx. You can get the PDF file here – Improving MySQL-based applications performance with Sphinx. I have been invited [...]
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 [...]
Community Events February-March
January 22, 2010 By 4 Comments
February and March as busy months for Community events. There’s MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca.
2010 Percona Training Schedule
January 14, 2010 By 5 Comments
After a nice long vacation, it’s time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs.  The dates are: Seattle 16 February San Francisco 18-19 February Boston 22-23 February New York City 25-26 February Montréal 8-9 March Denver 15-16 March Chicago 18-19 March [...]
There will be no separate Percona Performance Conference in April 2010
December 11, 2009 By 5 Comments
Now that O’Reilly has announced they’re going to have a MySQL conference independently of Sun/MySQL, we have decided not to proceed with plans for our own Performance Conference. We are participating in the O’Reilly conference, and we will do everything possible to make that a great success for everyone. See you there!
Percona Performance Conference 2010
October 23, 2009 By 7 Comments
It’s time to announce our plans for Percona Performance Conference 2010. We will hold the event on April 12th and 13th in Santa Clara, California. In the months to come we will announce the theme, the exact location (we have it reserved, but it’s subject to change), the exact dates (we may add days), and [...]
Videos from the 2009 Percona Performance Conference now available on PerconaTV
October 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Videos from the 2009 Percona Performance Conference are now available on www.percona.tv. Let us know which you like best so we can have some ideas for the 2010 conference!
EdUIConf 2009 recap
October 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I spoke at EdUIConf 2009, a new conference in my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. My presentation was on web interface performance; it’s basically a twist on front-end performance in general. I slanted the talk towards web developers, rather than assuming the audience has full control over their Apache configuration. The conference was relatively short — [...]
Speaking at Highload.ru
September 24, 2009 By 2 Comments
This is a quick announcement to say that I’ll be speaking at HighLoad++ this year (October 12-14 in Moscow). I’ll be presenting on a few topics: MySQL Performance Tuning (Conference Session) Quick Wins with Third Party Patches for MySQL (Conference Session) Performance Optimization for MySQL with InnoDB and XtraDB * (Full day class) This will [...]
Off to California!
September 10, 2009 By 5 Comments
Today’s the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week.
Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great – it was an opportunity to do a road test and iron out any kinks in the delivery.
What did I learn in the process?
