To kick off the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014, Percona held the first “Open Source Appreciation Day” on Monday, March 31st. Over 210 people registered and the day’s two free events focused on CentOS and OpenStack.
The OpenStack Today event brought together members of the OpenStack community and MySQL experts in an afternoon of talks and sharing of best practices for both technologies. After a brief welcome message from Peter Zaitsev, co-founder and CEO of Percona, Florian Haas shared an introduction to OpenStack including its history and the basics of how it works.
Jay Pipes delivered lessons from the field based on his years of OpenStack experience at AT&T, at Mirantis, and as a frequent code contributor to the project. Jay Janssen, a Percona managing consultant, complemented Jay Pipes’ talk with a MySQL expert’s perspective of OpenStack. He also shared ways to achieve High Availability using the latest version of Galera (Galera 3) and other new features found in the open source Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.
Amrith Kumar’s presentation focused on the latest happenings in project Trove, OpenStack’s evolving DBaaS component, and Tesora’s growing involvement. Amrith also won quote of the day for his response to a question about the difference between “elastic” and “scalable.” Amrith: “The waistband on my trousers is elastic. It is not scalable.” Sandro Mazziotta wrapped up the event by sharing the challenges and opportunities of OpenStack from both an integrator as well as operator point of view based on the customer experiences of eNovance.
OpenStack Today was made possible with the support of our sponsors, Tesora and hastexo. Here are links to presentations from the OpenStack Today event. Any missing presentations will soon be added to the OpenStack Today event page.
Speakers in the CentOS Dojo Santa Clara event shared information about the current status of CentOS, the exciting road ahead, and best practices in key areas such as system administration, running MySQL, and administration tools. Here’s a rundown of topics and presentations from the event. Any missing presentations will soon be added to the CentOS Dojo Santa Clara event page.
Thank you to all of the presenters at the Open Source Appreciation Day events and to all of the attendees for joining.
I hope to see you all again this November 3-4 at Percona Live London. The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015 will also return to the Hyatt Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center from April 13-16, 2015 – watch for more details in the coming months!
