MySQL and SSD: Usage and Tuning

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In this webinar we will discuss Solid State Drives internals and how they affect database performance. IO level benchmarks for SATA (Intel 320 SSD) and PCI-e (FusionIO and Virident) cards will be presented to show absolute performance and give an indication of performance per dollar. We will also discuss how you can use MySQL and [...]

PLMCE 2012: Measuring Scalability and Performance With TCP

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What if you had all the data you needed to measure system performance and scalability at any tier, discover performance and stability problems before they happen, and plan for capacity and performance by modeling the system’s behavior at greater load than you currently have? Now it is as easy as running tcpdump and processing the [...]

Zero-Downtime Schema Changes in MySQL

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Do schema changes (“migrations”) require a lot of advance scheduling and impact your development and business progress? Is an ALTER TABLE on the critical path in your project planning chart? This common problem comes from the fact that most ALTER operations in MySQL cause the table to be locked and rebuilt, which can be a [...]

PLMCE 2012 Closing Keynote

PLMCE 2012 - Closing Keynote & raffle

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo closing keynote and raffle. By Terry Erisman, CMO, Percona Inc.

Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012 – InfobrightDB

PLMCE 2012 - InfobrightDB

A quick relay of the Percona conference, introducing Sphinx, Akiban and Scale Arc open source technologies. From InfobrightDB YouTube channel.

Running Native on ioMemory:The Next Evolution in Application Performance

Running Native on ioMemory

What does it mean to run native on flash? Fusion-io talks to Brian Bulkowski of Citrusleaf, Slava Alchemechet of RethinkDB, and Vadim Tkachenko of Percona Software about how running closer to the hardware enables them to give their customers breakthrough performance that delights them.

Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL

Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL

Industry leaders from HP, Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Clustrix, and Akiban discuss the future of MySQL. Topics includes insights on the latest technology trends, predictions for the future of MySQL, and thoughts on the how the ecosystem will evolve in response to these developments. Panelists: Paul Mikesell (CEO, Clustrix) Sundar Raghavan (Director Product Management, Amazon) [...]

PLMCE 2012 Keynote: What Comes Next

Keynote: What Comes Next

Over the past decade MySQL has made huge improvements in performance and is starting to get a lot better in manageability. But there are some problems that have yet to be addressed. This talk describes features we hope to see in future releases of MySQL. Presented by Mark Callaghan (Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure, Facebook) at [...]

PLMCE 2012 Keynote: MySQL: Still the Best Choice for Mission-Critical Data

PLMCE 2012 Keynote: What Comes Next

In the past few years, choosing a database for your application has become an overwhelming task. There are tried-and-true relational databases, distributed NoSQL solutions, graph databases, key-value stores, commercial appliances, and even management-free database-as-a-service. Over the past 12 months, Box conducted a thorough survey of the major databases in an attempt to arrive at the [...]

PLMCE 2012 Keynote: The New MySQL Cloud Ecosystem

Keynote: The New MySQL Cloud Ecosystem

In this session, Brian Aker, Fellow at Hewlett-Packard and Lead Developer on the community-driven Drizzle open source database, will explore how the advent of cloud computing is changing the MySQL ecosystem. The evolution of cloud infrastructure fosters expansion in open source based technology, allowing cloud customers to focus more on building new applications and growing [...]