MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database. Sphinx allows MySQL users to search text (and more) at scale, without choking-out their favorite database. It’s a match made in the big data heavens. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that this year, like many years before, we’ll be heading to the Percona Live MySQL [...]

This week, we talk about the new and innovative talks appearing at Percona Live. Ear Candy is about warming up the innodb buffer pool cache, and At the Movies talks about zero-cost joins.

Pecona Live
Percona Live 2014 is Tuesady April 1st through Friday April 5th at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

Percona Live 2014 conference site

Register for Percona Live - save $100 if you register on or before March 2nd!

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MySQL Community team asked me to write about Devconf 2013 few months ago. Conference was in June, 2013, but I remembered about this my promise only now: month later after my participating in MySQL Connect and Expert Troubleshooting seminar (change country to United Kingdom if you see blank page). I think it is too late for the feedback, but I still have few thoughts which I want to record.

DevConf (former PHPConf) always was a place where I tried new topics. At first, because I know audience there very well and they will be bored if I repeat a story which I was telling last year, but also because it is much easier to get …

PalominoDB CEO Laine Campbell presented this class at the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, NYC Oct 2013. The class is broken into two videos and is a total of 85 minutes.

Click here for Part 1 - Click here for Part 2

Laine will explain the options for running MySQL at high volumes at Amazon Web Services, exploring options around database as a service, hosted instances/storages and all appropriate availability, performance and provisioning considerations using real-world examples from Call of Duty, Obama for America and many more.

Laine will show how to build highly available, manageable and performant MySQL environments that scale in AWS—how to maintain then, grow them and deal with failure. Some of the specific topics covered are:

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It will be a busy Fall season for the staff at PalominoDB as we will be sponsoring and speaking at two major international conferences.

First up is the MYSQL NOSQL & Cloud Expo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, OCT 15-16 2013. PalominoDB CTO Jay Edwards & DBA Emanuel Calvo will be featured speakers at this 2nd annual conference dedicated to building communities in Latin America.

Next is the AIOUG-SANGAM 13 in Hyderabad India, Nov 8-9, 2013.
PalominoDB CTO Jay Edwards and VP of International Operations Shiv Iyer, will be representing PalominoDB as a Silver Sponosor at one of the largest events in India.

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On October 15 and 16 I'll take the ferry to be at the MySQL NoSQL Cloud conference in Buenos Aires, and the schedule looks really nice so far. I think it's a great opportunity for people in this region to get up to date with what's going on in the MySQL ecosystem, and to have good discussions with members of the community that aren't usually around here.

I still haven't decided my complete agenda, as in some cases it's difficult to pick one track and miss the other one, but for now, here are some highlighted sessions I'm definitely attending:

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Quite some time ago, I published scripts to implement password policies for MySQL, and promised to show how to expose violations of that policy via MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM).  That stalled somewhat with other objectives, but I want to revisit it now that MEM 3.0 is GA.  If you haven’t tried MEM 3.0 yet, consider doing so – it’s quick and easy to set up.

Many people don’t realize that MEM can be extended to monitor things beyond MySQL Server health, including visibility into application state as observed from the database.  In part of the hands-on-lab I recently led at MySQL Connect, we …

The MySQL Connect content catalog is published, and I’ll be leading a hands-on lab on MySQL Enterprise Features in Practice [HOL9787].  If you have wondered how to get the most out of the features of MySQL Enterprise subscriptions – whether you are an existing Enterprise customer or not – this lab is for you.  We’ll help you understand the benefits of the various components of the MySQL Enterprise subscription as you install, configure, demonstrate and use the …

I’ll be joining Percona for a free day of MySQL education and insight at their upcoming Percona University Washington DC event on September 12th. My topic is accessing MySQL from Google’s Go programming language. I’ve learned a lot about this over the past year or so, and hopefully I can help you get a quick-start.

If you’re not familiar with Go, it’s the darling of the Hacker News crowd these days. Anything with “Go” in its title gets to the front page for at least a little while! Go is a great systems programming language. It’s safe to say I’ve fallen in love with it, and it’s now my favorite programming language of all those I’ve used over my entire career. I chose it because it’s ideally suited for VividCortex’s agent programs (zero dependencies, compiled, lightweight, high performance, robust, makes concurrency …

This week we talk about MySQL Connect sessions. Ear Candy is the mysqladmin "relative" command, and At the Movies is Manipulating JSON with MariaDB and MySQL. Listen to hear how to win a free pass!

Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time

FrOSCon - Aug 24-25th, 2013 in St. Augustin, Germany.

Oracle is having a MySQL OTN Virtual Developer Day August 31st.

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