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February 4, 2015
The future of MySQL quality assurance: Introducing pquery
Being a QA Engineer, how would you feel if you had access to a framework which can generate 80+ crashes [...]
January 7, 2015
Django with time zone support and MySQL
This is yet another story of Django web-framework with time zone support and pain dealing with python datetimes and MySQL [...]
November 14, 2014
RDS for Aurora unveiled at AWS re:Invent
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The [...]
October 23, 2014
MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown: Webinar Q&A
Yesterday (Oct. 22) I gave a presentation titled “MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown.” If you missed it, you can [...]
September 25, 2014
More then 1000 columns – get transactional with TokuDB
Recently I encountered a specific situation in which a customer was forced to stay with the MyISAM engine due to [...]
September 12, 2014
OpenStack Live 2015: Call for speakers open through November 9
I am proud to announce Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. The inaugural event, OpenStack Live 2015, is April [...]
August 15, 2014
Make a difference! See the world! Speak at Percona Live London; Santa Clara!
Twice each year members of the global open-source community converge on London in November and Santa Clara in April to [...]
July 17, 2014
Q&A: Even More Deadly Mistakes of MySQL Development
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL [...]
July 16, 2014
High Availability with mysqlnd_ms | Percona XtraDB Cluster
This is the second part of my series on High Availability with mysqlnd_ms. In my first post, “Simple MySQL Master HA [...]
July 14, 2014
Simple MySQL Master HA with mysqlnd_ms
I had the pleasure of presenting to the PHP Users Group Philippines a few days ago about mysqlnd_ms. The mysqlnd [...]
July 8, 2014
TIMESTAMP Columns, Amazon RDS 5.6, and You
This comes from an issue that I worked on recently, wherein a customer reported that their application was working fine [...]
June 9, 2014
Architecture and Design of MySQL-powered applications: June 11 Webinar
The architecture of MySQL-powered applications is one of my favorite topics to talk about. It’s a very important topic because [...]
June 4, 2014
Why did we develop percona-agent in Go?
We recently open-sourced our percona-agent and if you check out the source code, you’ll find that it is written in the [...]
May 22, 2014
A technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with [...]
April 25, 2014
Managing farms of MySQL servers with MySQL Fabric
While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies [...]
April 17, 2014
How to find bugs in MySQL
Finding bugs in MySQL is not only fun, it’s also something I have been doing the last four years of [...]
March 28, 2014
Innodb redo log archiving
Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 introduces a new “log archiving” feature. Percona XtraBackup 2.1.5 supports “apply archived logs.” What does it mean [...]
March 13, 2014
Open Source Appreciation Day at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
I am very pleased to announce a new event in conjunction with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this [...]
March 7, 2014
Q&A: Common (but deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. [...]
March 3, 2014
Oracle’s Mats Kindahl to weave MySQL Fabric into Percona Live session
MySQL Fabric is an integrated framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support for both high-availability and sharding. Its [...]