by Tokutek | Mar 19, 2012 | MySQL
Tokutek and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (worth $995 each), and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition (worth $55 each). This year’s event is the best ever,...
by Tokutek | Mar 13, 2012 | MySQL
Given all the focus and hype on Big Data, I was excited to have the chance at the recent O’Reilly Strata Show to sit down with Jeff Kelly, one of the top rated “Big Data” analysts, to give a MySQL perspective. Below is my interview with Jeff...
by Tokutek | Mar 5, 2012 | MySQL
We had the privilege this past week to be invited to be part of the 2012 O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference. Some of our photos from the event are here. At the event, we were excited to have Tokutek described in front of the approximately...
by Tokutek | Feb 27, 2012 | MySQL
Ensuring sufficient disk I/O to catch copyright violations at network speed. Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG Issues addressed: Storage growth, including maxed-out disk I/O utilization Performance issues and business impact due to slow selects Inability to revise data...
by Michael.Bender | Feb 21, 2012 | MySQL
So there I was, gesticulating in front of the chalkboard, lecturing to 120 students. Topic: the beauty of advanced data structures. The door opens and the department chair walks up the aisle onto the stage and comes up to me. 242 eyes follow her progress through the...
by Stewart Smith | Feb 8, 2012 | Cloud, Percona Events
Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. When: Friday, April 13th 2012 from 9:30 am Where: Cypress room, Mezzanine Level, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (5101 Great...
by Tokutek | Feb 6, 2012 | MySQL
While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such...
by Stewart Smith | Jan 24, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our...
by Tokutek | Sep 26, 2011 | MySQL
Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference (reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7) Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s...
by Maciej Dobrzanski | Apr 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
While the majority of Percona gang travelled to California for the MySQL event of the year, I headed in the opposite direction to Moscow for RIT++ 2010 conference where I presented a talk on Sphinx. You can get the PDF file here – Improving MySQL-based...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 18, 2009 | Percona Events
Talks are great. I however very much like discussion and opinion share atmosphere of the Birds of a Feather sessions so we host/co-host number of BOFs at the comming OSCON conference. Future of MySQL Forks, Branches and Patches I guess is the topic a lot of us are...
