by Bronwyn Campbell | Jul 10, 2018 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany call for papers. It will be open from now until August 10, 2018. The conference takes place November 5–7. Our theme this year is Connect. Accelerate. Innovate....
by Bill Karwin | Nov 22, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
One of my favorite tools in the Percona Toolkit is pt-query-digest. This tool is indispensable for identifying your top SQL queries, and analyzing which queries are accounting for your database load. But the report you get from pt-query-digest is only as good as the...
by Kenny Gryp | Jan 31, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia.Everybody is invited to come to the dinner. Just register on...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 12, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Mark Callaghan has graciously accepted to be the closing keynote speaker for Percona Live: San Francisco! Mark is best known for his work behind MySQL @ Facebook, where he and his team maintain one of the largest MySQL installations around. They also contribute back...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 5, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Today we’re announcing Percona Live – a one day event to be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco. Live is our way of showcasing some of the awesome work that has been going into MySQL recently – and the theme of this event...
by Morgan Tocker | Oct 6, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables. WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 5, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
I have my schedule pretty busy during a trip to Russia this year. In addition to giving a master class and Sphinx Conference I’m going to speak at HighLoad++. I’ll also have a user meeting presentations in Samara on October 17 and Minsk on October 22 This...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 10, 2010 | Percona Events
The First ever Sphinx Users Conference is announced to take place in Moscow, Russia on October 24th, which is the Sunday before Highload.ru conference, so if you’re attending that you may just drop by to this event too. this is going to be free technically...
by Morgan Tocker | Aug 19, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids Xtrabackup for MySQL If you...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
This year we’re participating in OSCON as a Sponsor and organizing some BOFs. I will be on the conference 21 and 22 if you’re interested to chat. Here is the list of currently scheduled BOFs which I’ll be hosting: Running Databases on Flash Storage...
by Baron Schwartz | May 4, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
If you were at last month’s MySQL conference, you might have seen a small flyer we were distributing, titled “A brief introduction to Goal-Driven Performance Optimization.” This is a super-compressed technical introduction to one of the methods we...
by Michael Rikmas | Apr 29, 2010 | Percona Events
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on various topics and all of those presentations are now available. Here’s the list: Achieving...
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 Baron Schwartz | Mar 15, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev: Scaling...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 22, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
February and March as busy months for Community events. There’s MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca. Here are the details: February 4th – I’ll be presenting a talk via MySQL University on Optimizing Queries with...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
After a nice long vacation, it’s time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs.  The dates are: Seattle 16 February San Francisco 18-19 February Boston 22-23 February New York City...
by Baron Schwartz | Dec 11, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
Now that O’Reilly has announced they’re going to have a MySQL conference independently of Sun/MySQL, we have decided not to proceed with plans for our own Performance Conference. We are participating in the O’Reilly conference, and we will do...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 23, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
It’s time to announce our plans for Percona Performance Conference 2010. We will hold the event on April 12th and 13th in Santa Clara, California. In the months to come we will announce the theme, the exact location (we have it reserved, but it’s subject...
by Ryan Lowe | Oct 12, 2009 | Percona Events
Videos from the 2009 Percona Performance Conference are now available on Percona Videos. Let us know which you like best so we can have some ideas for the 2010 conference!
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 2, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
I spoke at EdUIConf 2009, a new conference in my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. My presentation was on web interface performance; it’s basically a twist on front-end performance in general. I slanted the talk towards web developers, rather than assuming...
