Percona Live, Discount Tickets, Percona Server 5.5 Stable - May 2011

News Items:

• Register for Percona Live in New York on May 26th!
• Percona On The Road
• Drizzle Support Contracts
• Percona Server and XtraBackup News
• Training News
• Key Blog Posts from the MySQL Performance Blog
• We're Hiring
• Find us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
• Your Feedback Wanted

Dear Percona customers and friends,

Today we're excited to announce that we've completed the agenda for our upcoming Percona Live conference in New York City on May 26th. We'd like to invite you to this event at a special customer discount of $100 off the normal price. In addition, we have discount offers for the Rails and Velocity conferences, and we have a lot of other news to announce. You can also read this newsletter on our website.

Please let us know how we can be helpful to you.

Baron Schwartz
Chief Performance Architect
+1 888-401-3401 ext 507

Register for Percona Live in New York on May 26th!

We've hand-picked the top speakers in the MySQL world to deliver an exceptional lineup of sessions at Percona Live. Demand was so strong that we negotiated for an extra room at the venue, so we are now offering four tracks of 100% technical content from speakers like Peter Zaitsev, Harrison Fisk, and Kristina Chodorow.

Our goal with this conference is to help create a venue for experts to share their experience, and to help support and expand the MySQL marketplace so that we can all prosper. Ticket sales are accelerating, so don't delay if you want to attend; we sold every seat in San Francisco and it looks like it'll happen again.

As a thanks for your business and loyalty, we've created a special Percona customer discount code PL11NYPERCUST that will save you $100 off the listed pricing. You can use this link to register at a discount: http://www.percona.com/live/nyc-2011/?discount=PL11NYPERCUST.

Here's a brief summary of the session and speaker lineup:

Opening Keynote: State of the MySQL Ecosystem

Peter Zaitsev (Percona)

Opening Keynote: Why SQL Wins

Paul Mikesell, Sergei Tsarev (Clustrix)

Running an E-Commerce Database In The Cloud

Aaron Brown, Mark Uhrmacher (ideeli)

Migrating From MyISAM to InnoDB

Matt Yonkovit (Percona)

The SkySQL Reference Architecture: Simplicity in the MySQL Ecosystem

Ivan Zoratti (SkySQL)

Breaking Down Query Latency With DTrace

Brendan Gregg (Joyent)

MySQL High Availability With Pacemaker

Yves Trudeau (Percona)

Optimizing MySQL for Solid State Storage

Vadim Tkachenko (Percona)

MySQL & PHP Frameworks: Variations, Implications and Gotchas!

Raja Kapur (UrbanDaddy)

Drizzle 7, GA and Supported: Current & Future Features

Stewart Smith (Drizzle)

What's New In MariaDB

Kurt von Finck (Monty Program)

Putting Analytics in Big Data Analysis

James Dixon (Pentaho)

MySQL Replication Alternatives: Pros & Cons

Dr. John Busch (Schooner Info. Tech.)

Designing Linearly Scalable Multi-Site MySQL Applications

Shivinder Singh, Jordan Sebastian (Verizon)

Measuring Scalability and Performance With TCP

Baron Schwartz (Percona)

Improving Performance with Better Indexes

Ronald Bradford (Effective MySQL)

Renormalize: Solving Performance Problems in MySQL Without Denormalization

Ori Herrnstadt (Akiban)

MySQL DBA Tools and Tricks

Gennady Gurov (The Ladders)

High Performance Near Real Time Analytics with Columnar Databases and MySQL

Graham Toppin (Infobright)

Preventing MySQL Emergencies

Espen Braekken (Percona)

Full-Text Search with Sphinx and MySQL

Vladimir Fedorkov (Sphinx)

Building Blocks of Scaling: Using Drizzle/MySQL, Memcached, Sphinx, and Gearman

Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)

Using Percona XtraBackup

Vadim Tkachenko (Percona)

What's New In MySQL Cluster 7.2

Yves Trudeau (Percona)

Jailbreaking MySQL Replication

Robert Hodges (Continuent)

Efficiently Monitoring MySQL with Nagios

Sheeri Cabral (PalominoDB)

How NoSQL Complements MySQL

Matt Yonkovit (Percona)

How ONEsite uses Fusion-io Drives

Mike Benshoof (ONEsite)

Zero-Downtime MySQL Backups with Zmanda

Chander Kant (Zmanda)

Migrating From PostgreSQL to MySQL Without Downtime

Matthew Graham (Etsy)

Improvements in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6

Peter Zaitsev (Percona)

How Drizzle Does Everything You've Always Wanted It To

Monty Taylor (Drizzle)

Tuning For Speed: Percona Server and Fusion-io

Torben Mathiasen (Fusion-io)

Hybrid Applications Using mongoDB and MySQL

Kristina Chodorow (10gen/mongoDB)

Closing Keynote: MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future

Harrison Fisk (Facebook)

You can find out more about any of those sessions and speakers by visiting http://www.percona.com/live/nyc-2011/.

A big thanks to our sponsors, who make Percona Live possible: Clustrix, Vork, Continuent, Fusion-io, Infobright, Pentaho, Schooner Information Technology, SkySQL, 10gen, MongoDB, Virident, Webyog, Akiban, Couchbase, EffectiveMySQL, Facebook, INetU, Monty Program, New Relic, OmniTI, Sphinx, Tokutek, We Build Pages, Zmanda, DaniWeb, Drizzle, New York PHP, and PalominoDB.

Percona On The Road

Percona will be exhibiting at these upcoming events, and we have discount codes for 20% off registration. Come see us at our booth!

• RailsConf - May 16-19, Baltimore, Maryland. Visit us in booth 110, and get 20% off with discount code rc11pnl.
• O'Reilly Velocity - June 14-16, Santa Clara, California. Visit us in booth 413, and get 20% off with discount code vel11prw.

Drizzle Support Contracts

In April, we announced that our MySQL Support contracts now include support for Drizzle. This broadens the coverage to MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Maatkit, and Percona XtraBackup. As a reminder, we offer cost-effective per-server annual contracts as well as contracts for unlimited numbers of servers, which are economical for large installations. The benefit of having a Support contract is 24x7 access to our global team of experts who can coach you through tasks, help you resolve problems, and fix software bugs for you.

Percona Server and XtraBackup News

We've released version 5.5 of Percona Server as stable, with great performance and feature improvements as usual. We do recommend upgrading to MySQL or Percona Server version 5.5 when it is prudent for you to do so.

And version 1.6 of Percona XtraBackup is released, too. It has a lot of great new features to support faster and more flexible backups. We are expanding platform coverage of both Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup to include Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS.

A brief note on the future of Percona Server: we're thrilled to see that Oracle is considering incorporating or re-implementing many of our improvements in versions 5.6 and beyond. This will mean that we won't have to maintain them ourselves, and will free up more resources for building and maintaining some of the items on our wishlist that we haven't been able to get to yet. But nothing changes for Percona Server: we will continue developing and improving it just as we have been. In fact, we're hiring more development team members so that we can do more.

Training News

Here are the upcoming public training courses we have scheduled. Remember we can also do custom onsite courses for your team.

• MySQL Training in Denver
  Monday, 23 May 2011 to Thursday, 26 May 2011
• MySQL Training in London
  Monday, 06 Jun 2011 to Thursday, 09 Jun 2011
• MySQL Training in Frankfurt
  Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 to Friday, 17 Jun 2011
• MySQL Training in Vancouver
  Monday, 11 Jul 2011 to Thursday, 14 Jul 2011

Key Blog Posts from the MySQL Performance Blog

Here is a sampling of the technical blog articles we've published on the MySQL Performance Blog recently:

• Innodb Caching (part 2)
• Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)
• The two even more fundamental performance metrics
• Multiple purge threads in Percona Server 5.1.56 and MySQL 5.6.2
• Performance Schema tables stats
• Percona Server and XtraBackup for MacOS - experimental binaries
• Sysbench with support of multi-tables workload
• The four fundamental performance metrics
• Performance Schema overhead
• Intel Nehalem vs AMD Opteron shootout in sysbench workload
• InnoDB page sizes: plans and ideas
• Reality of Innodb Caching
• Percona XtraBackup 1.6 for Windows "try me" edition
• Drop table performance
• MySQL Connection Timeouts
• How to use tcpdump on very busy hosts
• Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?
• Innodb row size limitation
• Optimizing slow web pages with mk-query-digest
• More on MySQL Error Messages
• MySQL caching methods and tips
• Flexviews - part 3 - improving query performance using materialized views
• InnoDB Flushing: Theory and solutions
• Performance or Stability ???
• InnoDB Flushing: a lot of memory and slow disk
• MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput
• What's up with HandlerSocket?
• Maatkit's mk-query-digest filters
• Using Flexviews – part two, change data capture
• Using Flexviews - part one, introduction to materialized views
• Virtualization and IO Modes = Extra Complexity
• What Causes Downtime in MySQL?
• Choosing an appropriate benchmark length
• Where does HandlerSocket really save you time?
• Pretty-formatted index fragmentation with xtrabackup
• MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance

We're Hiring

Percona is hiring worldwide for sales, support engineers, consultants, and server developers. Visit the careers page on our website for details.

Find us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

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