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DrupalCamp Conference is hold in Göteborg, Sweden on May 25, 2013.
MySQL is part of this show and I would like to invite you to our session on "Scalability and Availability with MySQL Replication" given by Sven Sandberg on Saturday-May 25, 2013 @ 13:45-14:25!
So, if you are close to Göteborg or attending this event, do not forget to come to listen Sven's talk!
I finally posted a copy of the slides from my Percona Live presentation, “Creating a Benchmarking Infrastructure that Just Works”. The PDF is available via this link.
The content comes from my personal experiences over many years benchmarking and testing databases, usually focusing on performance. It was an opportunity to see how far my personal benchmark infrastructure has evolved, but even better has inspired me to improve it in several areas.
I never had a chance to to my own post-conference wrap-up regarding the Percona Live show. While waiting for my flight home at SFO airport I concluded that
[Read more...]MySQL Community team is pleased to announce following events as the ones supported by us with a great MySQL staff attending. Find more details below (or at our Community wikis).
It was a busy day at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. After the regular sessions, there were the traditional MySQL Community Awards, and two entities close to me were among the winners.
Thanks to the MySQL community for these awards. They give me (and my colleagues) a goos feeling of appreciation.
The day was even more successful for four major occurrences that contributed to my wellness:
Live from the PHP Summit conference in Munich: NoSQL in MySQL. A couple of hours ago I gave a talk about NoSQL in MySQL, contents: what is NoSQL, what is HandlerSocket, what is the InnoDB Memcached Plugin InnoDB and how to use with PHP, is this NoSQL? Slides are below.
NoSQL in MySQL from Ulf Wendel
(PDF download)
The talk was called a night session. Night session means, its the last talk for the day. After eight hours packed with workshops everybody is a bit tired and exhausted. What else could I do but tell them
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The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 is almost 1 month away. It's time to start planning, set the expectations, and decide what to attend. This post will give a roundup of some of the sessions that I recommend attending and I look forward to.
After much talk and disbelief, here they come! Oracle (http://www.mysql.com) engineers will participate to the Percona Live conference. This is wonderful! Their participation was requested by the organizers, by the attendees, and by community advocates, who all told the Oracle management how important it is to be in this conference. Finally, they have
[Read more...]On Thursday, I will travel to Boston, MA, to attend the Northeast LinuxFest, which includes also an edition of the Open Database Camp. The events will be at one of my favorite places on earth: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a.k.a. the MIT. Every time I speak at an event there, I feel at home, and I look forward to be there once more.
The Open Database Camp is organized, as usual, with the formula of an un-conference, where the schedule is finalized on the spot.
There are a few ideas for sessions. I have proposed two of the topics I am most familiar with:
Once again, Pythian is organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: The MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members as many of you will be in town for the MySQL Conference that week.
Here are the details:
What: The MySQL community pay-your-own-way dinner
When: Tuesday April, 23 – Meet us at 6:30 pm in the lobby of the Hyatt Santa Clara, or at 7 pm at Pedro’s (you are welcome to show up later too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
How: Comment on this blog post to add your name to the list of probable attendees
Pedro’s can handle large groups of people, but we would like to have an idea of
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While many attendees are repeat offenders, if 2013 is your first MySQL conference and you are relatively new with MySQL (say
Here are my top recommendations that give you a good grounding in the various conference topics and a wealth of experience from known MySQL authorities, on important topics.
Shlomi Noach is the next chairman of the Percona Live 2013. As such, he has opened the preview of the conference by posting some talks of interests, which includes a riddle to win a free pass.
The riddle went unanswered, and Shlomi submitted it also to members of the review committee, getting only blank stares, including mine.
Who will open your present,
Make you play pleasant,
Tidy your mess,
Do the same for all else?
Wanting to give away the pass at all costs, Shlomi then published a new post,
[Read more...]It happened last year at the previous Conference, and it's going to happen this year as well.
There will be a session of lightning talks during the conference, for the joy of both the audience and the speakers.Lightning talks are fun and instructional micro events. Their official purpose is to give the audience a chance to learn something in a very limited amount of time. The real purpose is for the speaker to be as entertaining and memorable as possible within the allocated time.
The call for participation is open from now until February 10th. If you have something that you want to say in not more than 5 minutes, you can SUBMIT A PROPOSAL.
In addition to [Read more...]I'm happy to report the release of the program schedule for the next Percona Live event, April 2013.
While you can see there are still some "TODO"s, and minor scheduling changes still to go, the overall reviewing process is complete, and the schedule is sound.
The committee has reviewed over 250 submissions in total, sessions and tutorials. It took two months to review the sessions and finalize the schedule. There were very good submissions, and it wasn't till I started building the schedule that I realized just how many.
You know the feeling: you're at a conference, and there's this time slot where you just can't make up your mind which session
[Read more...]On Monday afternoon, Neal Armitage and I will be speaking at Percona Live in London. It will be a three hours tutorial about Tungsten replicator.
The contents of this tutorial are mostly new. We have released recently a new and easier way of installing different topologies, in the shape of cookbook scripts, which are distributed with the replicator tarball.
Using this cookbook, any user can simply install multiple topologies, from the simple master/slave to all-masters, fan-in, and star.
There are recipes for showing the replication cluster, switching roles between master and a chosen slave, taking over MySQL replication, installing direct slaves with parallel replication, testing each topology, and
[Read more...]One of the great things about the MassTLC unConference is the spontaneity of the ideas. In the morning I ran into an old colleague whose startup was looking at switching databases and struggling with the options. Hence, “Scalable Databases for Startups” seemed like a great topic, so I proposed it, and then was off and running full steam after lunch.
The session brought in a wide variety of firms. While there were several vendors there – Basho, Calpont, InterSystems,
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If you're planning to attend UKOUG in Birmingham on Dec 3-5, here's your guide to know more about Oracle's MySQL.For those who do not read opensqlcamp group — CfP for FOSDEM 2013 conference is open!
Original email from lefred:
“2013 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition !
This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community.
If you want to discuss with friends of MySQL it’s the place to be in
February !
Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in
Brussels.
We will again have a room in the H building (100 seat). The MySQL &
Friends dev room will be open all day Sunday, February 3rd.
Call for Papers is open until December 21st
https://docs.google.com/a/percona.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHF5VXdwa2FGUHIzTGI3ZGE4MkpaS2c6MA#gid=0
This year all submissions will be reviewed by a committee that will
create the schedule.
The
It certainly has been a tough week on the East Coast. In the Boston area, where I am located, we got grazed by Sandy – power outages, trees down, schools closed, and Halloween delayed. This though, pales in comparison to what our NY office had to endure. One of our co-founders for example is one of the first few to get his power back at his home on Long Island just yesterday. He considers himself lucky – one of the several pine trees that came down on his property was just a few degrees off from destroying his house (it ended up taking down the gutter instead). Needless to say, it’s going to be a long recovery for NY and NJ. If you are looking to help, see here.
Of course, NYC is known for its resiliency. The first post-Sandy event at Manhattan’s Javitis Conference Center,
[Read more...]Next week I’ll be visiting Moscow to talk at Highload++. The conference will take place during Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd at the Radisson hotel. I will be giving my personal version of an indexing talk that my colleagues have given in meetups and conferences in the US.
Highload++ conference is targeted to address the issues of complex high traffic web properties. Most of these sites depend on databases to deliver their content, record the traffic and report the application activities in real time. As I learned early in my career at MySQL, the database schema and in particular the indexing strategy, are critical to achieve the highest possible performance out of the
[Read more...]I’ll be presenting “MongoDB and Fractal Tree Indexes” at MongoDB Boston 2012 on October 24th. My presentation covers the basics of B-trees and Fractal Tree Indexes, the benchmarks we’ve run so far, and the development road map going forward.
I’ve been to this one day conference twice now and both times came away with a better understanding of MongoDB’s capabilities, use-cases, and many questions answered via their deep technical dives. I highly recommend current MongoDB users and anyone considering a MongoDB project attend – it appears that seats are still available.
I'm honored to accept the role of conference chairman in the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, April 22th-25th, 2013, Santa Clara, CA. Here are a few administrative announcements:
Call for papers is extended until Oct 31st. We've already received a good number of submissions, but wish to provide with another chance for latecomers. Now is a good time to submit!
The committee will begin the long reviewing process shortly.
Members of the reviewing committee are:
Bradley and I (Michael) gave the tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference last month.
The tutorial was organized as follows:
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We've been fully operational for one year today. Time to take a quick breath and look back at a year that was among the most exciting in our lives, and time to look ahead to the next 12 months. In which things are likely to get even better.
Tokutek sponsored the Percona Live MySQL / New York 2012 Conference which took place this past Monday and Tuesday. I spent much of the time at our booth discussing TokuDB with conference attendees but also managed to attend the following presentations:
Love Python? Dig MySQL (http://www.mysql.com" target="_blank)? Want to meet Oracle’s MySQL Python Experts?
Come and join us at the MySQL Connect 2012 conference in San Fransisco next week, 29/30 September. My colleague Chuck and I are both giving 3 sessions in which we discuss MySQL Utilities and Connector/Python.
Overview of our session:
At next week’s Strange Loop conference, I will give a talk on “Understanding Indexing”. The session is 10 am Monday, September 24th, and will be held in the Midland States Room.
Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase application performance is to optimize the indexes. This talk presents three simple and effective rules on how to construct indexes around queries that result in good performance.
This is a general discussion applicable
[Read more...]It's that time of the year again — the summer holidays are over and the conference season starts!
I'm very excited to be at Oracle Open World in San Francisco again, where I will pretty busy. On Saturday and Sunday I will attend MySQL Connect, primarily to man the Oracle Linux booth in the exhibition area. But I hope to catch some of the talks as well (I shared my favourite sessions with Keith Larson from the MySQL team in this interview). During Open World, I will help out manning the Oracle Linux demo pods in the exhibition grounds in Moscone South, where we will showcase Oracle Linux with Ksplice and related
[Read more...]After a long pause in the speaking game, I am back.
It's since April that I haven't been on stage, and it is now time to resume my public duties.
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