Session
Opening Keynote: Characterizing Performance

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October 25th, 9:30AM
Fleet Suite

Abstract

Properly characterizing performance is tricky in the best of circumstances. What are the right tests to run? How do you find the limits? How do you interpret the results? Clustrix has partnered with Percona to characterize the performance of the Clustrix and MySQL products. In the process, Percona was able to compare several different SSD based technologies for comparison running both Clustrix and Percona Server With XtraDB. Percona was able to test different workloads at different concurrencies on a variety of different platforms to create a landscape of the available high-performance options in the MySQL environment. We will try to make sense of the tests and the results.

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Speakers

Paul Mikesell

Founder, VP of Strategy and Technology, Clustrix

Prior to starting Clustrix, Paul was the founder and director of engineering at Isilon Systems, where he designed, architected, and developed all of Isilon's scale-out NAS products while building the company to $100M. Before Isilon, Paul was the development manager for all of RealNetworks infrastructure products. Paul earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

 

Aaron Passey

CTO, Clustrix

Before joining Clustrix, Aaron was the chief architect for Isilon Systems. Starting in the early years of Isilon, he architected the industry-changing OneFS distributed file system from scratch, and was named as an inventor on 26 patents. He was responsible for the technical direction of the product that took Isilon to over $115M annual revenue. As chief architect, he maintained close ties with engineering, sales, marketing, customers, and vendors in order to maintain the rapid pace of innovation critical to Isilon's success.