Tom Krouper (GitHub) delivers his talk, "Automating Schema Changes using gh-ost", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
GitHub has been using gh-ost for online schema migrations since before it was open sourced in August of 2016. Once gh-ost was in place helping our migrations run more smoothly, the Database Engineers didn't want to have to be involved in running them...
Bill Karwin (SchoolMessenger) delivers his talk, "Recursive Query Throwdown in MySQL 8", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
MySQL 8 introduces support for ANSI SQL recursive queries with common table expressions, a powerful method for working with recursive data references. Until now, MySQL application developers have had to use workarounds for hierarchical data...
Károly Nagy (Dropbox), Peter Boros (Dropbox) delivers their talk, "Large scale automation for lazy engineers", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
Automation is a critical part in every infrastructure if you want to keep your sanity. We will show you with practical examples how you can move on from your shell scripts and ansible playbooks to build a self-managing...
Laurynas Biveinis (Percona) delivers his talk, "Percona Server: Key Performance Algorithms", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
We will discuss selected areas of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 internals that is mostly related to InnoDB buffer pool management and flushing, from a performance and scalability point of view.
We will describe the motivation behind the...
Jean-François Gagné (Booking.com) delivers his talk, "MySQL Parallel Replication (LOGICAL_CLOCK): all the 5.7 (and some of the 8.0) details", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
Since 5.7.2, MySQL implements parallel replication in the same schema, also known as LOGICAL_CLOCK (DATABASE based parallel replication is also implemented in 5.6 but this is not covered in this...
Patrick McFadin (DataStax) delivers his talk, "Living in Multiple Clouds with Apache Cassandra", on DAY 3 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/27, at Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud competition is heating up and the real winner is going to be you! Run your workloads wherever the price is right and avoid the dreaded cloud lock-in. The real trick is finding a way to co-exist in multiple clouds or even cloud and data...
Zburivsky Danil, Big Data Consultant / Solutions Architect from Pythian and Christos Soulios, Big Data Architect from Pythian delivers their talk, "Time series collection and processing in the cloud: integrating OpenTSDB with Google Cloud Bigtable", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/26, at Santa Clara, CA.
Data comes in different shapes. One of the these shapes is time series data. Time series...
Scott Mansfield, Senior Software Engineer from Netflix delivers their talk, "EVCache: Lowering Costs for a Low-Latency Cache with RocksDB", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/26, at Santa Clara, CA.
EVCache is an open source, fast, distributed cache. It is used at Netflix as a cache as well as a data store. EVCache powers user-facing applications, personalization algorithms or various micro-...
Alexander Rubin, Principal Architect from Percona and Michael Benshoof, Technical Account Manager from Percona delivers their talk, "MySQL 5.7, 8.0 and MongoDB: Geospatial Introduction", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/26, at Santa Clara, CA.
The goal of the talk is to review the GIS improvements in MySQL 5.7 and new additions in MySQL 8.0 (new this year!), provide some general review of the...
Igor Donchovski, Lead Database consultant from Pythian delivers their talk, "Exploring the replication and sharding in MongoDB", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, 4/26, at Santa Clara, CA.
Redundancy and high availability are the basis for all production deployments. Database systems with large data sets or high throughput applications can challenge the capacity of a single server like CPU for...
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