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March 13, 2013
MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL
As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important [...]
March 12, 2013
Oracle Technical Experts at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is sending some of their top technical people to speak at the Oracle, will [...]
February 14, 2013
Amazon Web Services and HP Keynotes at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
We are very pleased to announce the addition of HP and Amazon Web Services as keynote speakers for the Simone [...]
December 20, 2012
How to STOP SLAVE on Amazon RDS read replica
We are doing a migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 with a customer. This, unfortunately, involves some downtime – if [...]
October 24, 2012
Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures [...]
May 16, 2012
Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that [...]
April 10, 2012
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the [...]
April 2, 2012
Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz [...]
March 22, 2012
BOFs and Lightning Talks Announced for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo is going to be awesome! Great speakers, an A-list of sponsors, countless opportunities [...]
February 8, 2012
Announcing Drizzle Day, Fri 13th April 2012
Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the [...]
November 17, 2011
Sphinx 2.0.2 Beta is released, Sphinx Users Conference in December
My friends at Sphinx Technologies have finally released new beta of Sphinx – Sphinx 2.0.2. It includes about 6 months [...]
August 4, 2011
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes [...]
March 28, 2011
MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput
This is a continuation of my series of benchmark posts comparing Amazon RDS to a server running on Amazon EC2. [...]
March 28, 2011
What’s up with HandlerSocket?
I’ve presented at two different venues about HandlerSocket recently and the number one question that always arises is: Why hasn’t [...]
March 15, 2011
MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud-hosted MySQL solution. I’ve had some clients hitting performance limitations on standard EC2 [...]
March 14, 2011
Upcoming Webinar on HandlerSocket
On March 29th, I’ll be giving a webinar whose title is “Understanding HandlerSocket – A NoSQL PlugIn For MySQLâ€. This [...]
February 21, 2011
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well [...]
February 16, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 6 – Publishing server location
This post is the sixth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
February 15, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
December 14, 2010
Percona Server now both SQL and NOSQL
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., [...]