Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012
It's a wrap!
We had over 1,000 attendees and rave reviews. Thank you for making Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 one of the best in years.

When:
April 10th-12th, 2012
The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Tuesday April 10th, 2012

Time Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Ballroom G Ballroom H
8:00AM -
9:30AM
Registration in Main Foyer

9:30AM -
12:30PM
Administering MySQL
Jens Bollmann (SkySQL Ab)
Google-Hacking MySQL and More MySQL Security
Sheeri Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
MySQL Replication 101
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent, Inc)
Improving MySQL/MariaDB query performance through optimizer tuning
Timour Katchaounov (Monty Program AB)
Sergei Petrunia (Monty Program Ab)
How to evaluate which MySQL High Availability solution best suits you
Henrik Ingo (Nokia)
Ben Mildren (Pythian)
Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
Innodb and XtraDB Architecture and Performance Optimization
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
MySQL High Availability Deep Dive: Pacemaker, DRBD, MySQL Replication, and more!
Florian Haas (hastexo)
Yves Trudeau (Percona)
12:30PM -
1:30PM
Lunch
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1:30PM -
4:30PM
Starring Sakila: Building Data Warehouses and BI solutions using MySQL and Pentaho
Roland Bouman (Pentaho)
Matt Casters (Pentaho)
Understanding Performance through Measurement, Benchmarking and Profiling
René Cannaò (PalominoDB)
Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL
Alexey Yurchenko (Codership Oy)
MySQL For Developers
Kenny Gryp (Percona)
Percona XtraBackup: install, usage, tricks
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona Inc)
Alexey Kopytov (Percona)
Linux and H/W optimizations for MySQL
Yoshinori Matsunobu (Facebook)
Managing MySQL with Percona Toolkit
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
MySQL High Availability Deep Dive: Pacemaker, DRBD, MySQL Replication, and more!
Florian Haas (hastexo)
Yves Trudeau (Percona)
4:30PM -
6:30PM
Welcome Reception (in Expo Hall)
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Wednesday April 11th, 2012

Time Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Ballroom G Ballroom H
8:00AM -
8:45AM
Registration in Main Foyer

8:45AM -
9:05AM
Keynote: The MySQL Evolution
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
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9:10AM -
9:30AM
Keynote: Making LAMP a Cloud
Mårten Mickos (Eucalyptus Systems)
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9:30AM -
10:15AM
Keynote: The New MySQL Cloud Ecosystem
Brian Aker (HP)
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10:15AM -
11:00AM
Break in Exhibit Hall

11:00AM -
11:50AM
Crazy MySQL integration with NoSQL
Matt Casters (Pentaho)
TAD
Testing MySQL Databases: The State Of The Art
Patrick Crews (Percona)
TLS
MySQL Plugins - why should I bother?
Sergei Golubchik (Monty Program Ab)
NF
When to Adopt a Sphinx!
Andrew Aksyonoff (Sphinx Search)
BPB
Explaining the MySQL Explain
Ronald Bradford (Effective MySQL)
DEV
Measuring Scalability and Performance With TCP
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
DBA
Performance practices for minimizing replication delay
Yoshinori Matsunobu (Facebook)
RHAS
Building a multi-master, multi-region database infrastructure in Amazon EC2
Edward Archibald (Continuent)
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12:00PM -
1:00PM
Lunch

1:00PM -
1:50PM
Replaying database load with Percona Playback
Stewart Smith (Percona)
TLS
Hibernate and Connector/J Tuning
Ryan Lowe (Square)
Marcos Albe (Percona Inc.)
DEV
Diagnosing & Fixing MySQL Replication
Devananda van der Veen (HP Cloud Services)
RHAS
Be a Data Management Hero with Good Backups!
Robert Hodges (Continuent)
BPB
Hadoop for MySQL DBAs
Sarah Sproehnle (Cloudera)
DBA
Getting InnoDB Compression Ready for Facebook Scale
Nizameddin Ordulu (Facebook)
NF
One to Many: The Story of Sharding at Box
Tamar Bercovici (Box)
Florian Jourda (Box)
TAD
Database Profiling and Optimization
Sergei Tsarev (Clustrix)
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2:00PM -
2:50PM
MariaDB: The 2012 edition
Colin Charles (Monty Program Ab)
NF
Diagnosing intermittent performance problems
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
TLS
The Etsy Shard Architecture: Starts with S and Ends With Hard
John Goulah (Etsy)
TAD
Migrating A Financial Services Application from Sybase to MySQL
Mark Riddoch (SkySQL Ab)
Michael Pattison (Trading Screen)
BPB
The 5 minute DBA: MySQL DBA 101 for Non DBA's
Matt Yonkovit (Percona)
DBA
Application instrumentation for MySQL - What Why and How
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
DEV
Build simple and complex replication clusters with Tungsten Replicator
Jeff Mace (Continuent, Inc.)
RHAS
How Flash Storage can Streamline Your MySQL Performance
Shirish Jamthe (Virident Systems)
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2:50PM -
3:30PM
Break in Exhibit Hall

3:30PM -
4:20PM
Building a High-Volume Reporting System on Amazon using MySQL, Tungsten, and Vertica
Jeff Malek (BigDoor)
BPB
SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies
Bill Karwin (Percona, Inc)
DEV
Scripting MySQL with Lua and libdrizzle inside Nginx
Yichun Zhang (Taobao.com, Alibaba Group)
Xiaozhe Wang (Taobao)
TAD
Introducing XtraBackup Manager
Lachlan Mulcahy (Facebook)
TLS
MySQL Optimizer Standoff MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.3
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
NF
Backing Up Facebook
Eric Barrett (Facebook)
Kevin Knapp (Facebook)
DBA
What's new in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 Replication
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent, Inc)
RHAS
When the Application is the Problem
Jim Gochee (New Relic, Inc.)
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4:30PM -
5:20PM
Writing non-blocking code for interaction with data systems and web services in Node.js and Perl
Jay Janssen (Percona)
DEV
The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization
Leif Walsh (Tokutek)
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Case Study (JetAir): Dramatically increasing uptime with MHA
Stéphane Varoqui (SkySQL)
RHAS
Architecting your IT for long term cost savings with MySQL
Kaj Arnö (SkySQL Ab)
BPB
Scaling MySQL Databases for the Web
Sugu Sougoumarane (YouTube)
Mike Solomon (YouTube)
TAD
Extending Xtrabackup - A Point-In-Time System
Chris Schneider (Ning.com)
DBA
Using "NoSQL to InnoDB with Memcached"
Yoshinori Matsunobu (Facebook)
TAD
Production War Stories: Lessons from the Frontlines
Rajul Vora (Zuora)
Bayard Carlin (New Relic)
Brandon Bercovich (SugarSync)
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
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5:20PM -
9:00PM
Community Networking Reception (in Expo Hall)
MySQL Community Awards
Lightning Talks »

Thursday April 12th, 2012

Time Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Ballroom G Ballroom H
8:00AM -
8:45AM
Registration in Main Foyer

8:45AM -
9:05AM
Keynote: MySQL: Still the Best Choice for Mission-Critical Data
Sam Ghods (Box)
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9:10AM -
9:30AM
Keynote: What Comes Next
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
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9:30AM -
10:15AM
Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL
Paul Mikesell (Clustrix)
Sundar Raghavan (Amazon Web Services)
Slavik Markovich (McAfee)
Baron Schwartz (The Rimm-Kaufman Group)
Ori Herrnstadt (Akiban)
Brian Aker (HP)
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10:15AM -
11:00AM
Break in Exhibit Hall

11:00AM -
11:50AM
Running a high performance LAMP stack on a $20 Virtual server
Jay Janssen (Percona)
UH
Getting Started with Drizzle 7.1
Daniel Nichter (Percona)
DBA
Scaling MySQL in the Cloud
Sebastian Stadil (http://scalr.com)
UH
Oracle to MySQL migration
Marco Tusa (Pythian)
BPB
Scaling Pinterest
Marty Weiner (Pinterest)
Yashh Nelapati (Pinterest)
TAD
MySQL analysis at scale
Domas Mituzas (Facebook)
Harrison Fisk (Facebook)
TLS
Percona XtraDB Cluster: New HA solution
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona Inc)
RHAS
MySQL Replication: Pros and Cons
Darpan Dinker (Schooner Information Technology)
TAD
12:00PM -
1:00PM
Lunch

1:00PM -
1:50PM
How to offload MySQL server with Sphinx
Vladimir Fedorkov (PalominoDB)
DBA
From requirements to sharding and partitioning - and everything in between.
Raj Thukral (The Pythian Group)
TAD
MySQL at Google
Razvan Musaloiu-E. (Google)
DBA
Caching: Memcached & Redis
Matt Yonkovit (Percona)
TLS
Spil Games: Outgrowing an internet startup
Art van Scheppingen (Spil Games)
DBA
Upgrading MySQL: Best Practices
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
BPB
Using and benchmarking Galera in different architectures
Henrik Ingo (Nokia)
Alexey Yurchenko (Codership Oy)
RHAS
A Proposal for a MySQL Cloud Database Integrating OpenStack Technology
Sandro Mazziotta (HP)
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2:00PM -
2:50PM
Security Around MySQL
Singer Wang (The Pythian Group)
DBA
A Global In-memory Data System for MySQL
Daniel Austin (PayPal, Inc.)
TAD
Testing MySQL creatively in a sandbox
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent, Inc)
TLS
MySQL Upgrade, Case Study: Upgrade Large DB network from 4.1 to 5.5
Ananth Reddy (MyPoints)
sanjeev sagar (mypoints.com)
BPB
MySQL and SSD: usage and tuning
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona Inc)
UH
Common Schema: a framework for MySQL server administration
Roland Bouman (Pentaho)
DBA
Boost Your Replication Throughput with Parallel Apply, Prefetch, and Batching
Robert Hodges (Continuent)
Stephane Giron (Continuent)
RHAS
Accelerating Application Development Cycles using Amazon RDS
Sundar Raghavan (Amazon Web Services)
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3:00PM -
3:50PM
Verifying MySQL Replication Safely With pt-table-checksum 2.0
Daniel Nichter (Percona)
TLS
MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite
Ronald Bradford (Effective MySQL)
DBA
Gizzard: Scale with Twitter's MySQL sharding framework
Jeremy Cole (Twitter, Inc.)
RHAS
Full Text Search Throwdown
Bill Karwin (Percona, Inc)
TAD
Transitioning to SSDs in a High I/O Environment
Jim Gochee (New Relic, Inc.)
UH
Living with SQL and NoSQL at craigslist, a Pragmatic Approach
Jeremy Zawodny (Craigslist)
BPB
MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning
Johan Andersson (Severalnines)
DBA
Protecting MySQL Databases from Hacks and Attacks
Slavik Markovich (McAfee)
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3:50PM -
4:20PM
Break in Exhibit Hall

4:20PM -
5:00PM
Closing Keynote

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