News Items:
- Customer Survey
- Shift Support Captain: Online and Ready 24x7
- Training
- Meetups and Conferences
- New Employees Join Percona
- New Services: MySQL (NDB) Cluster
- XtraDB, XtraBackup, and Custom Builds
- Porting Patches to MySQL 5.1
- Maatkit Improvements
- Upgraded Cacti Templates
- On the Internet
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 24, 2009 — Percona, Inc. (http://www.percona.com/training), provider of pay-as-you-go consulting for the popular LAMP stack and other open-source software, announced today training workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB, which are among the most widely used storage engines for the open-source MySQL database.
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News Items:
- Announcement: Company Birthday
- Two New Consultants Join Percona
- XtraDB, XtraBackup, and Custom Builds
- New Services: Private Training Classes and Public Workshops
- New Services: Migrations
- New Services: High Availability
- New Services: Percona Assurance
- Shift Support Captain
- An Update on mk-upgrade: A Tool To Make Upgrades Safer
- Memcached Optimization with Maatkit
- Moving to the Cloud, RightScale Templates
- What About NoSQL?
- Percona Videos and Screencasts
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- Open Database Alliance, MariaDB
- Percona Keeps Growing
- Percona Performance Conference
- Percona Enhancements to the MySQL Server
- Percona XtraDB and Percona XtraBackup
- MMM Improvements
- Cacti Improvements
- Maatkit
- A Tool To Make Upgrades Safer
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Consortium Designed to be New Hub for MySQL Database Development, Support
and Services; Group Focusing on MySQL Branch Called "MariaDB"
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb 11, 2009 – Percona, a leading provider of consulting and support for large, high-performance Internet applications built from open-source software, has announced their Percona Performance Conference 2009. The conference theme is “Performance is Everything.” This free event presents experts on all aspects of the full software stack, including open-source databases (especially MySQL and InnoDB), full-text search, web and content serving, client-side performance, and caching. Coverage of programming languages, frameworks, operating systems, and hardware topics is also planned. The dates will be April 22 and 23, which coincides with the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009. more »
Percona announced on February 5 the creation of Percona Performance Conference, a new conference dedicated to full-stack performance topics. It will be held concurrently with the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 on April 22 and 23, 2009 in the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California. Topics include cloud computing, map-reduce, non-relational data stores, client-side performance, and of course MySQL, InnoDB and XtraDB. Confirmed speakers include the creators of MySQL, Drizzle, Sphinx, and more.
Percona has officially
announced the
Percona XtraDB transactional storage engine, which is based on InnoDB, the leading transactional storage engine for MySQL. It includes extra features and higher performance on modern hardware.
Percona announced on December 9 the appointment of Tom Basil as Chief Operating Officer of the company. Previously, Basil was Director of Support for MySQL AB for nearly eight years, serving from the inception of MySQL AB's support team until after its $1 billion acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Basil's team became home for many senior MySQL technologists, growing to 60 persons in 15 nations, all working over the Internet from their homes. His staff won unsolicited customer compliments from customers year after year for their unique approach (see http://www.mysql.com/support/quotes.html) and was featured in Fortune Magazine (see http://tinyurl.com/5fbfho). more »
Baron Schwartz, the creative force behind the popular Maatkit tools (and others), as well as co-author of the upcoming second edition of High Performance MySQL, has joined Percona as a consultant. Baron's expertise in InnoDB, scaling, and automation is a great addition to the team and will be very beneficial to our clients. Welcome, Baron!
Percona Goes to the MySQL Conference
April 01 2008
Our consultants will be at the 2008 MySQL Conference next week. We'll be presenting on Investigating Innodb Scalability Limits (Vadim Tkachenko, Peter Zaitsev), Sphinx: High Performance Full Text Search for MySQL (Andrew Aksyonoff, Peter Zaitsev), EXPLAIN Demystified (Baron Schwartz) and The MySQL Query Cache (Baron Schwartz). Aurimas Mikalauskas will also be attending the conference. We hope to see you there!
Heikki Tuuri gets technical with Innodb
November 07 2007
Heikki Tuuri finally found the time to answer the questions and Peter Zaitsev found time to provide his comments and publish the answers. They come in Two Parts - Part I and Part II
Peter Zaitsev speaks on HighLoad.RU
September 25 2007
Peter Zaitsev, speaks on
HighLoad.RU conference in Moscow/Russia giving talks on Scaling Web Applications and Comparison on Transactional Storage Engines.
Percona reveals new company site
September 01 2007
The New Company site was launched today. We will continue adding material to the site over the course of the following weeks.
