Conferences

MySQL Conference and Expo - 2012 and our company offsite

by LAINE CAMPBELL Apr 19, 2012

Last week was a huge week for PalominoDB.  I will admit to being cautiously optimistic about Percona taking over this conference - one of the biggest parts of the year for the MySQL community.  That being said, the conference was done quite well.  I really applaud Percona for making it happen.  In particular, the dot org pavillion was an excellent addition.  While I was stuck at the booth most of the event, I had a great view for the sheer variety of attendees coming through, and had the privilege of participating in a number of excellent conversations.

I noticed a number of patterns that seemed to prevail among the conversations.  Folks seem eager to move on to MySQL 5.5, finally comfortable with its stability.  Administrators are eager to learn more about MariaDB and Drizzle, and how they can differentiate themselves from the Oracle variants.  Partitioning is more prevalent as datasets grow, and sharding is becoming almost commonplace.  Now the focus is more on the challenging questions around HA - multi-master, synchronous replication and multi-datacenter installations.  People seem more interested in commercial additions around the MySQL ecosystem such as Tungsten, TokuDB, ScaleArc, Scalebase and Clustrix.  

René Cannao, one of our senior administrators did a great tutorial on understanding performance through measurement, benchmarking and profiling.  Feedback has been great, and we look forward to continuing to evolve our benchmarking and profiling methods.  Please keep an eye out.

Additionally, we were able to announce a very exciting partnership with SkySQL.  PalominoDB focuses on operational excellence by providing top DBAs to our clients.  We dig in to our clients' architectures and improve them, maintain them and help redesign them as they grow.  Our oncall services are top notch, regularly answering pages in under 5 minutes - and always providing a talented and experienced DBA on the other end of the phone.  What we don't do is software support.  It's just not our experience.  We can tune it, run it and grow it, but for clients who need to dig into code, fix bugs and really provide deep internals knowledge in MySQL - SkySQL are who we turn to.   We are also quite excited to help augment SkySQL's excellent services with our own - to create some of the happiest customers out there.

We are thrilled to see our partnership ecosystem grow, our service offerings expand and knowledge of our brand and the quality of services continue to improve.  I can't help but glow with pride at the reputation PalominoDB has built - through our DBAs, our clients and our partners.  Being a part of the MySQL  conference and expo only cemented this pride in community, and pride in our work.  Thank you to everyone who has helped us get there.

Thank you all of you!

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, Palomino

PostgreSQL 9.1 Presentation Slides available

by SHEERI CABRAL Nov 17, 2011

Our resident Postgres expert Emanuel spoke at the Libre Software World Conference last week about PostgreSQL 9.1, and as the Community Liasion for PalominoDB for a few more days, I am posting the slides so that folks can download them.  They are in PPT format:

 

http://dev.palominodb.com/docs/LSWC_POstgresql_91_English.ppt

Enjoy, and remember that all of our presentation slides and videos are available at any time from our Community -> Presentations page.  

 

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, Postgres, Presentations

New England Database Summit

by SHEERI CABRAL Nov 14, 2011

The New England Database Summit is an all day conference-style event where participants from the research community and industry in the New England area can come together to present ideas and discuss their research and experiences working with on data-related problems.  It is an academic conference with applications to real life, and includes any type of database.

The 5th annual NEDB will be held in Cambridge, MA MIT (in 32-123) on Friday, February 3, 2012.  Anyone who would like is welcome to present a poster (registration required), or submit a short paper for review.  We plan to accept 8--10 papers for presentation (15 minutes) at the meeting.   All posters will be accepted.

For more details, and to register and / or upload a paper, see:

http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday12/

Permalink
Posted in Cassandra, Cassandra, Conferences, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, Postgres

PalominoDB Percona Live: London Slides are up!

by SHEERI CABRAL Oct 27, 2011

 

Percona Live: London was a rousing success for PalominoDB.  I was sad that I could not attend, but I got a few people who sent "hellos" to me via my coworkers.  But on to the most important stuff -- slides from our presentations are online!

René Cannao spoke about MySQL Backup and Recovery Tools and Techniques (description) - slides (PDF)

 

Jonathan delivered a 3-hour tutorial about Advanced MySQL Scaling Strategies for Developers (description) - slides (PDF)

Enjoy!

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, MySQL, Palomino, Presentations, Tools

Percona Live:London, RightScale and Eucalyptus training discounts!

by SHEERI CABRAL Oct 19, 2011

(Tune in tomorrow where I tell you how you can win USD$100, like I did last week!)

Not signed up for Percona Live:London and need some motivation to do so?  How about a £40.00 discount?  That means the Expo Hall is free, regular registration is £260.00 and the tutorials + conference price is £500.00.  Use discount code "PDBUK".

In just 3 weeks, RightScale is having a cloud conference in Santa Clara, CA Nov 8-9.  There is a Zero-to-cloud training on Tuesday, November 8th, and you can get a 25% discount on the training by using code "RSCONF25".

RightScale and Eucalyptus are teaming up to provide a training, too -- on Thursday, November 10th.  If the name Eucalyptus sounds familiar, it is because former MySQL employees Mårten Mickos and Mark Atwood work there.  There is a 25% discount off that training by using code "RSEUCT25".

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, MySQL

Call for Papers for Collaborate ends tomorrow!

by SHEERI CABRAL Oct 13, 2011

The call for papers for Collaborate ends tomorrow, Friday October 14th.  Collaborate is Sunday, April 22nd through Thursday April 26th at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.  This year the folks scheduling the MySQL Conference and Expo have smartly chosen not to conflict, and in fact they are 2 weeks apart.

Collaborate is the largest independent (not put on by Oracle) conference for users of Oracle software.  This year we are having a one-day MySQL track at Collaborate, so that speakers and attendees can focus and optimize their time spent at the conference.

This is a great chance to give a talk to operations folks about running MySQL.  The audience is mixed, with some beginners and some intermediate folks.  We expect over 100 attendees to attend the MySQL sessions, as have done in the past 2 years.  

 

The track will have 1 or 2 MySQL talks per session time, so that the attendance is bigger and there is less that each attendee can miss -- last year the feedback from attendees was "I want to clone myself!" and the feedback fom speakers was "I wish there were more people in the room".  This year we are rectifying that.

 

So, don't forget to submit your paper today!

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, MySQL, Oracle

PalominoDB at PerconaLive

by LAINE CAMPBELL Oct 12, 2011

PalominoDB is very excited about our participation in the upcoming PerconaLive conference in London.  We'll have two of our European staff presenting.  On Monday, Jonathan Levin will be doing a tutorial on Advanced MySQL Scaling Strategies for Developers, and on Tuesday Rene Cannao will be presenting on MySQL Backup and Recovery Tools and Techniques.  Rene and Jonathan are two of our newer team members, and represent an exciting growth in staff outside of the US; Jonathan being in the UK and Rene being in Malta.  I know I'm thrilled to get out to London to meet a lot of new folks in our community.

We did get a chance to present at PerconaLive in NYC this year as well, which was quite a lot of fun, and the positive reception Sheeri's session got was gratifying.  Percona has become a huge part of our community and has provided great value in their information share, tools, services and now conferences - including the MySQL Conference & Expo 2012.  Having been involved in professional MySQL consulting and remote support for four years has been quite the adventure, and the fact that so many companies find space to create, share and prosper only shows the viability of open source software and the communities behind it.  

I know we at PalominoDB are quite proud to share space with companies such as Pythian, Blue Gecko, SkySQL and, of course, Percona. We are proud to support open source solutions across the board, and are even more excited to have grown to a place where we have the resources to contribute back to them, to non-profits and to the growth of our clients and every person on our team.  Here's to an exciting and brilliant future, and a great conference!

Permalink
Posted in Business, Conferences, MySQL, Palomino, Presentations

How Oracle Has Done Nothing to Change MySQL

by SHEERI CABRAL Oct 5, 2011

Last night at the Oracle OpenWorld MySQL Community Reception, there were lots of old and new friends milling about.  It occurred to me that there is one very important thing Oracle has NOT changed about the MySQL world - the rock stars and higher-ups are still readily accessible.

One of the things I love about being in the open source community is that you can have an in-depth conversation with someone, and only later on find out that this person is famous.  For the most part, rock stars and important people are readily accessible.  They stay in the same hotels that attendees do, they take the same elevators, they are not whisked away by bodyguards, and they do not play the "don't you know who I am?" card.

Now, it's not surprising that the community rock stars like Mark Callaghan, Baron Schwartz, Giuseppe Maxia and Sarah Novotny are still as accessible as ever.  However, Ed Screven and Thomas Ulin were also around for the party, and I can confirm that Thomas was one of the last dozen or so to leave (Ronald Bradford and I closed out the party and were the last to leave).

So, kudos to Oracle for not keeping your VIPs locked up in a bunker.  I am very glad to see this aspect of open source culture still thriving.

Permalink
Posted in Business, Conferences, MySQL, Oracle, Palomino

Securing MySQL and How to Be a Rock Star DBA Presentation Slides

by SHEERI CABRAL Oct 5, 2011

For those who missed my presentations at Oracle OpenWorld (or if you caught it but want the slides) - PDF slide decks are online:

 

Securing MySQL (IOUG)  - http://technocation.org/files/doc/MySQLSecurity2011_09.pdf

How to Be a Rockstar MySQL DBA - http://technocation.org/files/doc/2011_09_RockStar.pdf

Permalink
Posted in Conferences, MySQL, Palomino, Presentations

What Community Resources should be at Oracle OpenWorld?

by SHEERI CABRAL Sep 22, 2011

A short while ago I posted about the Oracle OpenWorld Schedule Matrix of MySQL sessions (in PDF and HTML formats).  We have printed up a (small) number of schedules to have on hand at the MySQL Community kiosk at the User Group Pavillion in Moscone West.

Yes, you read that correctly -- the User Group Pavillion will include a MySQL Community kiosk this year!  Sarah and I have been coordinating the effort to staff the kiosk and figure out what we need to provide.

Sadly, it's just a kiosk (same as all the other User Group organizations get), so we cannot have a ton of flyers there.  To that end, we have created a QR code that resolves to www.kimtag.com/MySQL, which is where we are putting many links.  

To that end, we'd like your help figuring out what we have missed.  In order to keep the list of links as short and relevant as possible we have put as many aggregate links as we could, for example we link to planet.mysql.com instead of individual blogs, and we are only listing the major conferences with over 500 attendees expected.  The links at www.kimtag.com/MySQL as of the time of this blog writing are:

- MySQL sessions at OOW

- Planet MySQL

- dev.mysql.com (docs, etc)

- mysql.com

- MySQL User Groups (forge.mysql.com list) - so if you have a user group, make sure to update the forge page!

- Percona Live 2012 Conference & Expo

- MySQL videos on YouTube

- IOUG MySQL Council

- OurSQL Podcast Blog

- OurSQL iTunes link

- MySQL Experts podcast

- Book: MySQL Administrator's bible*

- Book: High Performance MySQL

- Book: Expert PHP/MySQL

- Book: MySQL High Availability

 

If you think of a link we should put on there, please comment below.

 

For what it's worth, the paper we will have will be:

- The current day's schedule

- A flyer about Percona Live 2012 MySQL Conference & Expo

- A poster of the QR code and a few small paper slips with the QR code

- IOUG MySQL Council business cards

And even that is stretching it, as there will be a laptop at the kiosk provided by Oracle and the kiosk is 24 inches x 24 inches, about 61 centimeters x 61 centimeters.
* Note that I have ordered the books with the MySQL Administrator's Bible first because it's for beginner/intermediate users, whereas High Performance MySQL is for intermediate/advanced users.
Permalink
Posted in Conferences, MySQL, Palomino, Presentations
Syndicate content
Website by Digital Loom