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‘Open Source Appreciation Day’ draws OpenStack, MySQL and CentOS faithful

210 people registered for the inaugural “Open Source Appreciation Day” March 31 in Santa Clara, Calif. The event will be held each year at Percona Live henceforth.

To kick off the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014, Percona held the first “Open Source Appreciation Day” on Monday, March 31st. Over 210 people registered and the day’s two free events focused on CentOS and OpenStack.

The OpenStack Today event brought together members of the …

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ScaleArc: Benchmarking with sysbench

ScaleArc recently hired Percona to perform various tests on its database traffic management product. This post is the outcome of the benchmarks carried out by Uday Sawant (ScaleArc) and myself. You can also download the report directly as a PDF here.

The goal of these benchmarks is to identify the potential overhead of the ScaleArc software itself and the potential benefits of caching. The benchmarks were carried out with the trunk version of sysbench. For this reason, we used a very small set of data, so the measurements will be fast, and it’s known that caching has huge benefits when the queries themselves are rather expensive. We decided that we would rather show that benefit with a real-world application, which is coming later is this series. And if you’re in the Silicon Valley area, be sure to join us this evening at the …

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Explosive OpenStack growth at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 runs April 1-4  at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Santa Clara Hyatt – but be sure to get there a day early for the inaugural Open Source Appreciation Day on March 31 – this event is free but because space is limited I suggest registering now to reserve your spot.

Interest is particularly high in OpenStack and its intersection with MySQL and Open Source Appreciation Day and the conference sessions and events reflect this. Last year, the Percona Live MySQL Conference included 4 talks with Trove (“Red Dwarf” at the time) as the …

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Open Source Appreciation Day at the Percona Live MySQL Conference

I am very pleased to announce a new event in conjunction with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this year: Open Source Appreciation Day on Monday, March 31st in the Santa Clara Convention Center! We are pleased to announce two separate groups holding events this year under this new umbrella. We are hosting an event called “OpenStack Today” for those interested in learning more about developments in the OpenStack world. CentOS is holding the “CentOS Dojo Santa Clara” …

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