by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 7, 2008 | Insight for Developers
Preparing to move I’m selling stuff on GumTree which is UK based clone of Craigslist offering similar functionality but with Ads 🙂 Similarly to Craigslist GumTree is powered by MySQL but unlike craigslist it looks like they are shy in tuning their MySQL Full...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 6, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
Sergey Petrunia brought to my attention the work Optimizer Team has done in MySQL 6.0 related to SubQuery Optimization. I am excited to see this information published honestly outlining the things which are fixed now and things which are still not handled well....
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 3, 2008 | Percona Events
Guess what ? I also will be speaking at MySQL Users Conference 2008, which is always excited. According to session schedule I’ll have one talk about Innodb Scalability Limits and another one together with Andrew Aksenoff about Sphinx. Looking back at Proposals...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 29, 2008 | Percona Events
This weekend we’re hearing great news from Michael “Monty” Widenius – one of the Fathers of MySQL. Monty finally found a time to create his own blog with very descriptive name Monty Says. At the same time Monty finally announces Maria –...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 21, 2008 | Percona Events
Kaj wrote me email yesterday asking if I was sleeping for a whole week or may be dead because I’m probably the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on extremely busy travel...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 4, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
As I already wrote you can well go to Linux distribution vendors if you’re looking for recent MySQL version in a hassle free binary form. (On the time of this writing you could only get binaries for MySQL Community 5.0.45 from MySQL Download Pages which was...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 29, 2007 | Percona Events
Our company, Percona is even more Virtual than MySQL AB – we have no offices and 100% of staff members work out of their homes (or traveling, onsite with customers etc). We also probably have just couple of cities where more than one Employee lives. Working as a...
by Alexey Kovyrin | Nov 26, 2007 | Insight for DBAs
As Peter mentioned in one of previous posts, we’ve done huge work developing robust strategies of InnoDB data recovery to provide our customers effective data recovery services and one of major parts of these strategies is our toolkit for InnoDB data recovery....
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 25, 2007 | Percona Events
I have now posted slides for the talk I gave in Zurich last week in MySQL Performance Presentations section. That was fun talk and fun trip in general. Thank you for inviting.
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 18, 2007 | Percona Events
I’m visiting customer in Zurich next week and also was invited to give a talk on MySQL Performance Wednesday November 21. If you’re in the area please feel free to drop by I’ll start by talking about Query Optimization and we’ll keep it...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 12, 2007 | Percona Events
Baron have been updating you a lot about chapter by chapter progress so I should not repeat it, instead I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about how we work on the book. Generally, quite similar to the previous book this is long process, which is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 1, 2007 | Insight for Developers
Look at this post recently published on TechCrunch – It is ugly standard 404 error message, but what is interesting is the server line which shows nginx 0.5.32 I have checked and indeed images served from assets.hulu.com have nginx server in response header....
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 30, 2007 | Percona Events
Looking at the Feedback I got for other Presentations Proposals I thought I indeed should submit general presentation focusing on Web Application performance tuning and explaining how you analyze performance and why do you do it this way, so here it is: Performance...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 26, 2007 | Insight for Developers
Its almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers to only some of the questions but as people still poking me about this I decided to publish the answers I have so far. Plus we may get some interesting...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 24, 2007 | Percona Events
OK, I am not getting too much people feedback on what would they like to hear about on MySQL Users Conference, so I went ahead and submitted few presentation ideas. I do not expect all of them would be accepted, furthermore it would be hard to prepare so many good...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 22, 2007 | Percona Events
If you have been MySQL User for many years you might remember the times when MySQL had “zero bugs policy”, this is when all known bugs really were fixed before release was made. To be honest at that time bugs were reported via bugs mailing list not via...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 22, 2007 | Percona Events
It is submission time now, with about one week left till proposal submission deadline. Both me and Vadim had submitted few talks to the Grand Jury which will make elite selection of sessions for MySQL Users Conference and we plan to submit few more. Our experience in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 17, 2007 | Percona Events
Yesterday I’ve attended MySQL Customers Conference in London. This event is much smaller size than Users Conference (one day and about 170 people attending) and surely less geeky – there were no one from MySQL Development Support or Consulting teams and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 6, 2007 | Percona Events
Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it. Lets start with bright side. The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 5, 2007 | Percona Events
About one month ago we posted a call for interns to work with us on various MySQL Performance related things. We got good number of replies and a lot of people wondered what tasks exactly we could offer as surely this sort of involvement should be fun and should teach...
