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Percona Live Europe: Tutorials Day

Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017: Tutorials day! Technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open source tools and technologies.

Today attendees went to training sessions taught by open source database experts and got first-hand experience configuring, working with, and experimenting with various open source technologies and software.

The first full day (which includes opening keynote speakers and breakout sessions) starts Tuesday 9/26 at 9:15 am.

Some of the tutorial topics covered today were:

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Advanced replication for the masses - Part II - Parallel replication
I hope you liked the first part of this series of lessons. And I really hope that you have followed the instructions and got your little replication cluster up and working.

If you haven't done that, thinking that you would spare your energies for more juicy matters, I have news for you. What I explained in the previous part is exactly what you need to do to set up parallel replication. With just a tiny additional detail.
For the sake of the diligent readers who have followed the instructions with the first lessons, I won't repeat them, but I'll invite you to set the environment as explained in the first part.
Once you have a cluster up and …

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Why you don’t want to shard.

Note: This blog post is part 1 of 4 on building our training workshop.

The Percona training workshop will not cover sharding. If you follow our blog, you'll notice we don't talk much about the subject; in some cases it makes sense, but in many we've seen that it causes architectures to be prematurely complicated.

So let me state it: You don't want to shard.

Optimize everything else first, and then if performance still isn't good enough, it's time to take a very bitter medicine. The reason you need to shard basically comes down to one of …

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