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I’m speaking at the MySQL conference in April
It might surprise you to hear this, but I had no idea whether my talks would be accepted. The committee decided on that, and neither I nor anyone else at Percona is on the committee. In any case, I’ll be giving some tutorials again this year, and two of my talks have been accepted: Measuring Scalability and Performance With TCP and
Diagnosing intermittent performance problems.
This seems like an appropriate place to mention a few words about the conference organization. The number of people involved is staggering (100+). The logistics — the number of tasks, vendors, contracts, and so on — blows the mind. The upfront cost is literally unmentionable. It’s an exponentially bigger deal in every way than any of the conferences we’ve done before. There is no way to explain it to anyone who isn’t involved. I don’t even comprehend it myself.
Despite this, we are working hard to ensure that the traditions we’ve known and loved for years are continued. It turns out that they all have a very high cost in real dollars. We are constantly faced with hard decisions that always involve “how are we going to pay for this?” I wish that, for example, it could be simple and lightweight to organize BOFs. But there are unions and contracts and room minimums and overtime pay and bundled quotes and restrictions every which way. Nothing is simple, nothing is easy, nothing is cheap — regardless of how simple, easy, and cheap it should be.
And yet, there will be BOFs and dot-org booths and Drizzle Day and all the rest. And the ticket price is a lot less than it was last year. If you appreciate this, you can help by getting attendees to come. Please promote the conference to everyone you know, in every way you know. Use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, everything. Blog about it. Mention it in-person. Ask your boss to send you and your colleagues, or send your team if you’re the boss. Send email to your meetups and user groups and mailing lists, and ask them to promote it to their networks too. Enough said.
Further Reading:There will be an O’Reilly MySQL Conference in April 2010
I’ll be speaking at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference 2010
Speaking at EdUI Conference 2009
The MySQL Conference will be very good this year
Postgres folks, consider the 2011 MySQL conference
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Announcing Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 on February 9th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).
Based on MySQL 5.5.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.5.20-24.1 milestone at Launchpad.
Full release notes available here: http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/release-notes/Percona-Server-5.5.20-24.1.html.
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Drizzle Day and MariaDB day to end your MySQL user conference
Good news to all of you who are going or were thinking of going to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Yesterday two great addon events were announced, both happening on Friday April 13th, right after the main conference:
Drizzle Day 2012
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MySQL High Availability Realized - Webcast 2/16
High availability is about more than making sure that apps can get to your data even if there is a failure. How about when you are upgrading your database schema? What if you need to add memory to a database server or reconfigure/restart MySQL? If your apps want to read data from a MySQL slave, how can you be sure they are not reading stale data without re-coding your apps? What if your main
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Successful Dallas Tech Tour
Benjamin Wood talks at the Dallas MySQL Tech tour on the history of MySQL The first MySQL Tech Tour in Dallas is over. A capacity crowd filled the room. Only a few had never had ‘hands on’ with the MySQL database and very few were comfortable source code readers. The majority came to hear about embedding MySQL, how to tun systems for better performance, and some new features in the product.
Benjamin Wood started with a presentation on the history of MySQL and the changes in the product over the last few releases. Craig Sylvester showed how to use embedded MySQL. Then Benjamin capped off the event with a presentation on database monitoring and performance tuning. The event did go slightly over scheduled time due to an extended question and answer period following the presentations.
Thanks to all who attended. Craig Sylvester talking at the Dallas MySQL Tech Tour about embedding MySQL
For MySQL Tech Tour events in your ares, click here.
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