On January 16th at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern, I will give a webinar about the main traps that are awaiting you when designing and building a stable and high-performance MySQL application. I will discuss a broad range of topics, from hardware and backups to instrumentation and indexing. I often see during my consulting practice [...]
Speaking on MySQL/PHP Meetup in Charlotte, NC
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’m speaking at MySQL/PHP Meetup at Charlotte,NC next week with topic being Scaling MySQL Applications. We will have a presentation probably for about an hour and the good amount of time for questions. So come prepared. Great thanks to Red Ventures, LLC for help organizing and sponsoring this event. I’m hearing there are going to [...]
Recordings for webinars are now online
December 9, 2010 By 6 Comments
We’ve just published the recordings for our webinars; Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB and Introduction to Percona Server, XtraDB and Xtrabackup. To listen, click on (Watch: Recorded Webinar) on each of these links. We’re planning for future webinars next year. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.
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.
Doing Re-run of Migrating MyISAM to Innodb Webinar
December 1, 2010 By 9 Comments
We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. I personally would be very upset having booked my time to attend event, pre-registered to ensure there is a space available and when unable to join at the time of event (which is frankly exactly [...]
Talks in Moscow, Minsk, Samara
October 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
I have my schedule pretty busy during a trip to Russia this year. In addition to giving a master class and Sphinx Conference I’m going to speak at HighLoad++. I’ll also have a user meeting presentations in Samara on October 17 and Minsk on October 22 This looks like it is going to be a [...]
Diagnosing and fixing MySQL Performance Problems in Russian in Moscow, Russia
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
During my visit to Moscow, Russia next month I’m going to give a full day training/tutorial presentation on Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems . This even will be based on updated and expanded tutorial from MySQL Conference & Expo which was so popular it was sold out earlier this year. This also will be [...]
Presentations Announcement: 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
April 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on…
Author: Peter Zaitsev, Justin Swanhart
MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti
Author: Baron Schwartz
Percona‘s Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB
Author: Bill Schuler, Baron Schwartz…a Bottleneck
Author: Morgan Tocker
XtraBackup Hot Backups and More
Author: Vadim Tkachenko, Morgan Tocker
You can also read more about this conference on Percona site.
Slides from my Sphinx talk at RIT++ 2010
April 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Training Updates
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wanted to provide an update on two things: Firstly, we have opened registration for InnoDB/XtraDB training in Los Angeles (Nov 18th). The second is that while I am in New York City for training (Oct 29th), I’ll be giving a (free) talk at the MySQL Meetup group there (Oct 28th). We love to speak [...]
