by Ryan Lowe | May 26, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is pleased to officially welcome Justin Swanhart to our team of consultants. Before joining Percona, Justin worked as a MySQL DBA at Gazillion, Yahoo, and Kickfire. Justin has become a regular contributor here on the MySQL Performance Blog as well as being an...
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 Morgan Tocker | Apr 8, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve just launched training for London, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Orlando, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago & Washington DC. This is in addition to Los Angeles, Raleigh & Toronto – which had...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 9, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest. You can read about SecondLife’s experience here, as well as what Flickr had to say on their blog. The main improvements come in both performance gains and improvements to diagnostics (such as the...
by Fernando Ipar | Jan 26, 2010 | Percona Events
Percona is hiring. As part of our growth process, we introduced the role of the Shift Support Captain in 2009 (see the original announcement here) to provide customers with a 24×7 technical contact person. The Shift Support Team dispatches incoming emergencies,...
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 16, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’re hiring. We are looking for the following qualifications: Expert knowledge of MySQL. Not just “certified” — years of production experience with it. You need to know server internals, for example. You need to be able to do anything from...
by Morgan Tocker | Nov 5, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve been busy expanding our training curriculum to include training for developers building applications with MySQL. We have reached the point where we’re ready for a pilot teach – and it brings me great pleasure to announce that we’re...
by Morgan Tocker | Aug 4, 2009 | Percona Events
Today, we are announcing that we’re ready to offer training for InnoDB and XtraDB in Santa Clara and San Francisco. The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team – and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in...
by Ryan Lowe | Jul 13, 2009 | Percona Events
The Percona team has kept on expanding. We are very pleased to announce the addition of Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit! Morgan has been with us for a while. Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 2, 2009 | Percona Events
At Percona we provide services both Onsite – visiting the customers and Remote – logging in to their systems or communicating via email,phone,instant messaging. We believe both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks and mixing them right way allows...
by Evgeniy Stepchenko | Apr 8, 2009 | Percona Software
Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-4 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements in this release: Move to MySQL 5.1.33 Move to InnoDB plugin 1.0.3 more reliable replication, innodb_overwrite_relay_log_info patch now included in the release fix...
by Morgan Tocker | Mar 10, 2009 | Percona Events
Percona presented two talks at PHP Quebec last week – one on A Tour of MySQL High Availability, and another on Performance Tuning MySQL. There was a great reaction to showcasing some of the quick-wins that can be found by using the Percona patches....
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 9, 2009 | Percona Software
We had too many requests for deb builds of Percona releases so I could not ignore that and added scripts to build binaries on our Ubuntu 8.10 box. It’s going to be only 64bit releases (32bit is dead, isn’t it?), and I tested binaries on Debian Lenny system...
by Evgeniy Stepchenko | Mar 2, 2009 | Percona Software
Today we announce release 1.0.2-3 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: Move to MySQL 5.1.31 Scalability fix — ability to use several rollback segments Increasing the number of rseg may be helpful for CPU scale of write-intentional workloads....
by Baron Schwartz | Feb 13, 2009 | Percona Events
Percona is hiring. We’ve added several experts recently and we’re growing at a fast but sustainable pace. The demand for our services is strong, and we have openings for more experts in the next couple of months. Let me explain a little about what...
by Baron Schwartz | Feb 5, 2009 | Percona Events
All of us here at Percona warmly invite you to Percona Performance Conference 2009 on April 22 and 23, 2009 in the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California. The theme for the conference is Performance Is Everything. This conference is about application performance...
by Baron Schwartz | Jan 13, 2009 | Percona Events
As we’ve said before, the Percona team just keeps growing. This time around, I’m pleased to welcome Ryan and Vladimir. Ryan Lowe initially joined us from Florida (USA) in June. In his previous lives he scaled an Alexa top 1000 site with a sharded MySQL...
by Baron Schwartz | Jan 9, 2009 | Percona Software
Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been doing the same thing for many years. We think it’s a huge value for our customers and the community. We’re involved in a...
by Evgeniy Stepchenko | Dec 29, 2008 | Percona Software
Today we announce release 1.0.2-2 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: split-buffer_pool_mutex The patch splits global InnoDB buffer_pool mutex into several and eliminates waitings on flush IO and mutex when there is no enough free buffers. It...
