Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future.

Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company, to a company that supports MongoDB and other open source databases. Percona Live and Percona Live Europe have become key meeting places for the open source community, and now are important hubs for learning about and discussing open source database solutions.

As we look forward to the next ten years of business, we want to get an idea of what you think of us. As we plan for the future, we’d like to hear about your experience with Percona today and get your input on how we can continue to evolve. 

To achieve that end, we’ve put together a survey of questions about us, our services, our products and the open source …

Today we’re happy to announce our new product, NinesControl. Built on the capabilities of the popular ClusterControl, NinesControl is a database management cloud service that enables developers to easily, uniformly and transparently deploy and manage polyglot databases on any cloud, with no need to install anything.

NinesControl is for developers and admins of all skills levels who do not want to limit themselves to one cloud provider nor use the services that are only available on that cloud. It also removes the complexity and learning curve that typically come with highly-available database clusters. With this initial launch, users of Amazon AWS or DigitalOcean can spin-up MySQL or MongoDB clusters within minutes, with more cloud providers and datastores being added soon.

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This blog post discusses the differences between the Amazon AWS service tiers.

Many people want to move to an Amazon environment but are unsure what AWS service makes the most sense (EC2, RDS, Aurora). For database services, the tiering at Amazon starts with EC2, then moves up to RDS, and on to Aurora. Amazon takes on more of the implementation and management of the database As you move up the tiers. This limits the optimization options. Obviously, moving up the tiers increases basic costs, but there are tradeoffs at each level to consider.

• EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a basic cloud platform. It provides the user with complete control of the compute environment, while reducing your need to monitor and manage hardware. From a database perspective, you can do almost anything in …

At Percona Live Amsterdam recently, the conference expanded beyond just its focus areas of MySQL & its ecosystem and MongoDB to also include PostgreSQL and other open source databases (just look at the recent poll). The event was a sold out success.

This will continue for Percona Live Santa Clara 2017, happening April 24-27 2017 – and the call for papers is open till November 13 2016, so what are you waiting for? Submit already!

I am on the conference committee and am …

We’ve extended the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 call for papers deadline until November 13th!

If you haven’t submitted already, please consider doing so. Speaking at Percona Live is a great way to build your personal and company brands, and if selected you will receive a complimentary full conference pass! For Percona Live 2017, we’re not just looking for MySQL and MongoDB topics, but also talks on other open source databases. 

The Percona Live 2017 Call for Papers is open until November 13, 2016. Do you have a MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL or open source database use case to share, a skill to teach, or a big idea to discuss? We invite you to submit your speaking proposal for either breakout or tutorial sessions. …

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

Computer conferences each have their own personalities. Sure their are some common flavors — Utilikilts at Linux events for instance — but each have developed their own quirks. These character traits develop around the content of the show, the core beliefs of the organizers, and passion of the attendees who stride through the doors.

This past week All Things Open was held in Raleigh and Scotland PHP was held in Edinburgh. ATO has grown from four hundred attendees to twenty four hundred over four years. Scotland PHP was a first time event with about one hundred fifty or so present. Todd Lewis and the ATO crew have mastered providing great content at a very low cost at a show where offer a wide menu to many. Paul Dragoonis (to pick on one organizer) and his mainly Scots cohorts carefully studied other conferences to get just the right mix. Both had vibrant audiences who had direct and detailed questions …

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

Earlier this week, Baron Schwartz, VividCortex's CEO and author of High Performance MySQL, led a thorough webinar about the new and upcoming updates for a couple major databases: MySQL 8.0 and PostgreSQL 9.6. Attendees of the webinar had the opportunity to learn and ask questions about the most exciting, most impactful, and most overdue changes on offer in these latest iterations.

Didn't get a chance to tune in when the webinar was live? No problem! You can access all of Baron's webinar slides here, and you can register for a free, on-demand recording of the webinar here. Let us know what you think and check out the screenshots of the …

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 call for papers is closing soon! Get in your submissions ASAP!

After this past sold-out Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, we’ve decided that expansion definitely works! The diverse list of topics at the recent conference convinced us that variety is both the spice of life. It’s the key ingredient to a successful event.

For Percona Live 2017, we’re not just looking for MySQL and MongoDB topics, but also other open source databases. Submit your topics as soon as you can, the period closes on November 13, 2016!

We’re also planning to take this conference back to its roots. This means not focusing 100% on operations, but …