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Dave AveryLet’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple […]
Come see Percona at AWS re:Invent from November 26-30, 2018 in booth 1605 in The Venetian Hotel Expo Hall. Percona is a Bronze sponsor of AWS re:Invent in 2018 and will be there for the whole show! Drop by booth 1605 in The Venetian Expo Hall to discuss how Percona’s unbiased open source databse experts can […]
Percona’s very own Michael Benshoof posted an article called Supercharge your Amazon RDS for MySQL deployment with ProxySQL and Percona Monitoring and Management on the AWS Database blog. In this article, Michael looks at how to maximize the performance of your cloud database Amazon RDS deployment. He shows that you can enhance performance by using ProxySQL to handle […]
We are experiencing an intermittent commenting problem on the Percona Database Performance Blog. At Percona, part of our purpose is to engage with the open source database community. A big part of this engagement is the Percona Database Performance Blog, and the participation of the community in reading and commenting. We appreciate your interest and contributions. […]
Percona Live 2018 is officially done! The closing ceremony ends the conference with a last few lightning talks and a prize giveaway. We ended the Percona Live 2018 conference the same way we started: with talks! This year, we had our lightning talks as part of our closing ceremony. They included: Amazon Aurora MySQL and […]
We’re heading into the home stretch at Percona Live 2018, but the sessions are continuing. I was able to attend a talk this afternoon given by Inaam Rana, a Database Developer at Alibaba Cloud, on PolarDB, an InnoDB based shared-everything storage solution. POLARDB provides read scale out on shared everything architecture. It features 100% backward […]
We’re moving along at Percona Live 2018, and there are still packed and energetic talks after lunch. My next session was with Andrew Regner, Production Engineer at Facebook. His talk was on securing access to Facebook’s databases. Since the beginning, Facebook has used a conventional username/password to secure access to production MySQL instances. Over the […]
Percona Live 2018 is moving along, and the first person I got a chance to talk with is Michael Demmer, Senior Staff Engineer at Slack. His talk was on Migrating to Vitess at (Slack Scale). MySQL is the backbone of Slack’s data storage infrastructure. It handles billions of queries per day across thousands of sharded […]
Welcome to Percona Live 2018 keynotes, day two! Day two of Percona Live 2018 looks to be as filled with great talks as day one. Today we started with keynote presentations from Percona, a panel on the evolution of databases and talks from VividCortex and Upwork. You can view the recording of today’s keynotes here. Percona […]
In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Shuhoa Wu, Software Developer for Shopify, Inc. about how Ghostferry is the Swiss Army knife of live data migrations. Existing tools like mysqldump and replication cannot migrate data between GTID-enabled MySQL and non-GTID-enabled MySQL – a common configuration across multiple cloud providers that cannot be […]
In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Jun Su, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft about how Microsoft built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the cloud. Offering MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB database services in the cloud is different than doing so on-premise. Latency, connection redirection, optimal performance configuration are just a few […]
In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Christian Antognini, Senior Principal Consultant at Trivadis about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL query optimizers. MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most popular open-source relational databases. Why would you pick one over the other to support your applications? Of course, it depends on […]
In this Percona Live 2018 blog, we’ll talk with Ronald Francisco, SRE of Database Infrastructure at Twitter about why they moved from a fork of MySQL to MySQL 5.7. We already started today with a great set of keynote sessions, and now the breakout sessions have begun in earnest. I’ve been looking in on the talks […]
Welcome to Percona Live 2018 keynotes, day one! Percona Live 2018 is up and running! We call this day one, but in reality, yesterday was filled with tutorials that provided excellent and practical information on how to get your MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments up, running and optimized. Today we started with keynote presentations […]
Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Alexis Guajardo, Senior Software Engineer at Google.com. His session talk is titled […]
Announcing the Percona Live 2018 live stream. This year at Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 we are live streaming the Keynote Talks on Day 1 and 2. Percona is streaming the keynotes on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, and Wednesday, April 25, 2018 beginning at 9 AM PDT (both days). The keynote speakers include people from VividCortex, Upwork, Oracle, Netflix and […]
Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Joshua Galbraith, Senior Software Engineer and Bryant Vinisky, Site Reliability Engineer at […]
Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Jenni Snyder, Engineering Manager – Operations at Yelp. Her tutorial talk […]
Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Mat Arye, Core Database Engineer at Timescale. His talk is titled Databases […]
Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Jignesh Shah, Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. His talk […]