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Dave AveryThis blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017). A full recording of this webinar, along with the presentation slide deck, can be found here. Percona Software Below are the […]
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Bimal Kharel on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, as he presents a webinar on MongoDB monitoring called How to Help Your DBA’s Sleep Better at Night at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Are you trying to stay on top of your database before things turn ugly? Between […]
The slides and videos from the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 are available for viewing and download. The videos and slides cover the keynotes, breakout sessions and MySQL and MongoDB 101 sessions. To view slides, go to the Percona Live agenda, and select the talk you want slides for from the schedule, and […]
Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:00 am (PST) / 2:00 pm (EST) discuss Percona’s software news and roadmap, including Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Monitoring and Management. Register Now During this webinar, Peter will talk about newly […]
From everyone at Percona and Percona Live 2017, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s conference. This year’s conference was an outstanding success! The event brought the open source database community together, with a technical emphasis on the core topics of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, […]
So that is just about a wrap here at Percona Live 2017 – except for the closing comments and prize giveaway. Before we leave, I have one more session to highlight: Facebook’s Beringei. Beringei is Facebook’s open source, in-memory time series database. Justin Teller, Engineering Manager at Facebook, presented the session. According to Justin, large-scale monitoring […]
The place is still frantic here at Percona Live 2017 as everybody tries to squeeze in a few more talks before the end of the day. One such talk was given by Red Hat’s Stefan Negrea on Hawkular Metrics. Hawkular Metrics is a scalable, long-term, high-performance storage engine for metric data. The session was an overview […]
The last day of Percona Live 2017 is still going strong, with talks all the way until 4:00 pm (and closing remarks and a prize giveaway on the main stage then). I’m going to a few more sessions today, including one from Stephane Combaudon from Slice Technologies: Lessons learned while automating MySQL deployments in the AWS […]
Welcome to the third (and final) day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the third (and final) set of Percona Live keynotes! The enthusiasm hasn’t waned here at Percona Live, and we had a full house on Thursday morning! Day three of the conference kicked off with three keynotes talks, and […]
Every day at Percona Live 2017 brings something new and unusual – and on this particular day, we found out that MySQL makes toast. A lot of people think that with MySQL and open source software, you can do anything. While many might view this metaphorically, Percona’s Alexander Rubin (Principal Consultant) takes this statement very seriously. […]
Percona Live 2017 is done for Wednesday, but there was still time to get in one more talk before tonight’s Community Networking Reception – and the last one of the evening was about Amazon RDS. Darin Briskman, Lead Developer Outreach & Technical Evangelist for Amazon, held two back-to-back sessions on Database management made simple – Amazon RDS. Amazon Relational Database Service […]
The afternoon at Percona Live 2017 is slipping by quickly, and people are still actively looking for sessions to attend – like the session I just sat in on histograms in MySQL and MariaDB. Histograms are a type of column statistic that provides more detailed information about data distributions in table columns. A histogram sorts […]
Today at Percona Live 2017, the afternoon is jam-packed with open source technology lectures filled with community members eager for the latest on the best strategies – including how you should deploy MongoDB on public clouds. Dharshan Rangegowda (CEO of ScaleGrid) discussed deploying MongoDB on public clouds. ScaleGrid provides a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution […]
Percona Live 2017 is rolling along, and now that everybody got through lunch we’re all recharged and ready for the afternoon. Let’s start it out with Amazon Aurora. Once of the best-attended sessions was Sailesh Krishnamurthy’s (Senior Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services) talk on a deep dive into what is new in Amazon Aurora. Amazon […]
Welcome to the second day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the second set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a bit rainy outside today, but that isn’t bothering the Percona Live attendees (we’re all indoors learning about new open source technologies)! Day two of the conference kicked off with another four keynote […]
It looks like the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is coming to a close. Before we shut it down for today, we’ll look at a presentation on Real-Time Data Loading from MySQL and Oracle into Analytics/Big Data. In this session, Continuent’s VP of Products MC Brown looked at Tungsten […]
The Percona Live Open Source Data Conference 2017 day one is rolling right along, and we’re already in the afternoon sessions. In this blog, we’ll look at Citus Data’s presentation on how to design your SaaS database to scale with Postgres. If you’re building a SaaS application, you probably already have the notion of tenancy […]
Breakout sessions are in full swing at the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017. Check out what’s new in MySQL 8.0. We’ve finished with this morning’s sessions, and this morning saw a lot of amazing open source talks. One of the most well-attended was MySQL 8.0: Major New Features given by Geir Høydalsvik, Senior Software Development Director […]
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the first set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a beautiful day in Santa Clara, but we don’t know because we’re inside the Hyatt Regency Convention Center listening to various rock stars in the open source database community talk about open […]
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference: Percona Live 2017 tutorials day! While technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open source tools and technologies. Today attendees went to training sessions taught by […]