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Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now open. Hurry though because the deadline for submitting a speaking proposal is June 21st and Super Saver registration ends July 5th!

This year’s conference will feature one day of tutorials and two days of keynote talks and breakout sessions related to MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. You’ll get briefed on the hottest topics, learn about operating a high-performing deployment and hear from top-industry leaders describe the future of the ecosystem – encompassing MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, MongoDB (and more). Attendees include DBAs, sysadmins, developers, architects, CTOs, CEOs, and vendors from around the world.

Have something to say? Why not lead a breakout session or a tutorial?

Breakout sessions are 50 minutes including a Q&A. Tutorial sessions focus on an immediate and practical application of in-depth MySQL and NoSQL knowledge. Tutorial speakers should assume that attendees will have laptops to work through detailed and potentially hands-on presentations. Tutorials are typically three hours long including a Q&A, however, if you have content for a full day, submissions for 6-hour-long tutorials are also being accepted. If your tutorial or breakout session is approved, you’ll receive a complimentary full-conference pass.

Huge thanks to our Conference Committee!

There would be no Percona Live without the hard work of our conference committees. Meet this year’s Percona Live Europe 2015 Conference Committee – a dedicated group of experts in MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud:

• Erik Beebe – Founder and CTO, ObjectRocket
• Luis Motta Campos – Database Administrator, ebay Classifieds Group
• Colin Charles – Chief Evangelist, MariaDB
• César Trigo Esteban – Development Director, Gigigo
• Kenny Gorman – Chief Technologist; Data. Office of the CTO, Rackspace
• Amrith Kumar – Founder and CTO, Tesora
• Giuseppe Maxia – Quality Assurance Architect, VMWare
• Shlomi Noach – Senior Systems Engineer, Booking.com
• Konstantin Osipov – Engineering Manager, Mail.Ru
• Morgan Tocker – MySQL Community Manager, Oracle
• Art van Scheppingen – Head of Database Engineering, Spil Games
• Charity Majors- Production Engineering Manager, Facebook
• Peter Zaitsev – Co-founder and CEO, Percona

Sponsorships

Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live Europe 2015 are now available. Sponsors become part of a dynamic and fast-growing ecosystem and interact with hundreds of DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. This year’s conference will feature expanded accommodations and turnkey kiosks.

Planning to attend?

Super Saver registration discounts for Percona Live Europe 2015 are available through July 5th (at 11:30 p.m. CEST). Visit the Percona Live Europe 2015 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about Percona Live Europe 2015.

Percona has also negotiated a special hotel rate at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. If you book your hotel before July 6th your delicious breakfast is included.

I hope to see you in Amsterdam!

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Peter Zaitsev kicks off Percona Live 2015

With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo had something for everyone.

More than 1,200 attendees from around the world converged upon Santa Clara, California for the event, which included for the first time a two-day OpenStack Live track alongside a two-day crash course for aspiring MySQL DBAs called “MySQL 101.”

With the Tokutek acquisition, announced last Tuesday by Peter Zaitsev, Percona becomes the first company to offer both MySQL and MongoDB software and solutions. Percona has also taken over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications. Peter talks in depth about the technologies in last week’s post.

Apple legend Steve Wozniak at Percona Live

Also on Tuesday, “Woz” and Jim Doherty, EVP of Sales & Marketing, talked about a range of issues associated with technology and innovation.

The Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers also shared his thoughts on what influenced him growing up, his approach to problem solving, childhood education, artificial intelligence and more. (You can view the entire 45-minute conversation by clicking on the Woz to the left.)

Tweets of #PerconaLive during the conference hit nearly 2,000 – many with photos that are worth looking at (see all of the tweets here).

The other keynotes included:

• Peter Zaitsev’s opening keynote
• Peter Zaitsev announces Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek
• Oracle’s Tomas Ulin’s keynote was titled “Celebrating MySQL“
• Facebook’s Harrison Fisk who spoke about “Polyglot Persistence @Facebook“
• A panel discussion on the next disruptive technology titled “What comes after the Cloud and Big Data?“
• “WebScaleSQL: The Power of Collaboration,” by Facebook’s Steaphan Greene
• MariaDB’s Patrik Sallner keynote was titled “1+1>2“
• VMware’s Robert Hodges answered the question, “What Has the Cloud Done for My Data Lately?“
• Rob Young presented “Percona’s Take on Smart Data Management – What’s Next for Products and Services“
• And Tesora’s Amrith Kumar spoke about “Building Databases for the ‘-as-a-Service’ World“

Community Appreciation Game Night

In addition to the above keynotes, all of the sessions were recorded and will be available soon for registered attendees who had access to them at the conference. Most of the slides will be available soon to everyone via the Percona Live 2015 site. Just click the session you’re interested in and scroll to the bottom of the page to view the slides.

Congratulations go out to all of the MySQL Community Awards 2015 winners with a special thanks to Shlomi Noach and Jeremy Cole for running the awards program.

Special thanks also goes out to the Percona Live and OpenStack Live 2015 conference committees, which together organized a fantastic week of events. And of course none of the events would have been possible without our generous Percona Live sponsors and OpenStack Live sponsors.

Finally, a round of applause for Percona’s director of conferences, Kortney Runyan, for her monumental efforts organizing the event. Kortney could not have succeeded without the support of our multiple service vendors including Ireland Presentations, Carleson Production Group, Tricord, the Hyatt Santa Clara, and the Santa Clara Convention Center, to name just a few.

Also announced last week was the new venue for Percona Live Europe, which will be held September 21-22 in Amsterdam. Percona Live Amsterdam promises to be bigger and better than ever. The Call for Papers is open for this exciting new venue so be sure to submit your proposals now.

See you in Amsterdam this September! And be sure to save the date for Percona Live 2016 – April 18-21 at the the Hyatt Santa Clara, and the Santa Clara Convention Center.

P.S. For more Percona Live and OpenStack Live 2015 photos…

• Day 1 (April 13)
• Day 2 (April 14)
• Day 3 (April 15)
• Day 4 (April 16)

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Peter Zaitsev kicks off Percona Live 2015

With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo had something for everyone.

More than 1,200 attendees from around the world converged upon Santa Clara, California for the event, which included for the first time a two-day OpenStack Live track alongside a two-day crash course for aspiring MySQL DBAs called “MySQL 101.”

With the Tokutek acquisition, announced last Tuesday by Peter Zaitsev, Percona becomes the first company to offer both MySQL and MongoDB software and solutions. Percona has also taken over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications. Peter talks in depth about the technologies in last week’s post.

Apple legend Steve Wozniak at Percona Live

Also on Tuesday, “Woz” and Jim Doherty, EVP of Sales & Marketing, talked about a range of issues associated with technology and innovation.

The Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers also shared his thoughts on what influenced him growing up, his approach to problem solving, childhood education, artificial intelligence and more. (You can view the entire 45-minute conversation by clicking on the Woz to the left.)

Tweets of #PerconaLive during the conference hit nearly 2,000 – many with photos that are worth looking at (see all of the tweets here).

The other keynotes included:

• Peter Zaitsev’s opening keynote
• Peter Zaitsev announces Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek
• Oracle’s Tomas Ulin’s keynote was titled “Celebrating MySQL“
• Facebook’s Harrison Fisk who spoke about “Polyglot Persistence @Facebook“
• A panel discussion on the next disruptive technology titled “What comes after the Cloud and Big Data?“
• “WebScaleSQL: The Power of Collaboration,” by Facebook’s Steaphan Greene
• MariaDB’s Patrik Sallner keynote was titled “1+1>2“
• VMware’s Robert Hodges answered the question, “What Has the Cloud Done for My Data Lately?“
• Rob Young presented “Percona’s Take on Smart Data Management – What’s Next for Products and Services“
• And Tesora’s Amrith Kumar spoke about “Building Databases for the ‘-as-a-Service’ World“

Community Appreciation Game Night

In addition to the above keynotes, all of the sessions were recorded and will be available soon for registered attendees who had access to them at the conference. Most of the slides will be available soon to everyone via the Percona Live 2015 site. Just click the session you’re interested in and scroll to the bottom of the page to view the slides.

Congratulations go out to all of the MySQL Community Awards 2015 winners with a special thanks to Shlomi Noach and Jeremy Cole for running the awards program.

Special thanks also goes out to the Percona Live and OpenStack Live 2015 conference committees, which together organized a fantastic week of events. And of course none of the events would have been possible without our generous Percona Live sponsors and OpenStack Live sponsors.

Finally, a round of applause for Percona’s director of conferences, Kortney Runyan, for her monumental efforts organizing the event. Kortney could not have succeeded without the support of our multiple service vendors including Ireland Presentations, Carleson Production Group, Tricord, the Hyatt Santa Clara, and the Santa Clara Convention Center, to name just a few.

Also announced last week was the new venue for Percona Live Europe, which will be held September 21-22 in Amsterdam. Percona Live Amsterdam promises to be bigger and better than ever. The Call for Papers is open for this exciting new venue so be sure to submit your proposals now.

See you in Amsterdam this September! And be sure to save the date for Percona Live 2016 – April 18-21 at the the Hyatt Santa Clara, and the Santa Clara Convention Center.

P.S. For more Percona Live and OpenStack Live 2015 photos…

• Day 1 (April 13)
• Day 2 (April 14)
• Day 3 (April 15)
• Day 4 (April 16)

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Percona has submitted seven talks for the next OpenStack Summit in Vancouver this May. And as with all OpenStack Summit events, the community decides the content. Voting ends February 23, and if you aren’t already an OpenStack Foundation member (required to vote), you can join now for free here.

Percona’s Vancouver OpenStack Summit proposals

Percona’s proposals include collaborations with top contributors across a variety of OpenStack services including Trove and Swift. You can vote for our talks by clicking the titles below that interest you.

MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive
Speakers: Peter Boros, Jay Pipes (Mirantis)

Deep Dive into MySQL Replication with OpenStack Trove, and Kilo
Speakers: George Lorch, Amrith Kumar (Tesora)

MySQL on Ceph Storage: Exploring Design, Challenges and Benefits
Speakers: Yves Trudeau, Kyle Bader (Red Hat)

Core Services MySQL Database Backup & Recovery to Swift
Speakers: Kenny Gryp, Chris Nelson (SwiftStack)

Smart MySQL Log Management with Swift
Speakers: Matt Griffin, Chris Nelson (SwiftStack)

Discovering Better Database Architectures For Core Services In OpenStack
Speakers: Kenny Gryp, Matt Griffin

Upgrading your OpenStack Core Services On The Database Side: Nova, Neutron, Cinder…
Speakers: Kenny Gryp, Matt Griffin

Other interesting proposals

Here are a few proposals from other organizations that look particularly interesting. Please consider them as well.

Exploration into OpenStack Trove, customer use cases, and the future of Trove for the community
Speakers: Amrith Kumar (Tesora), Brad Topol (IBM), Mariam John (IBM)

The Entrepreneur’s Challenge: The Realities of Starting an OpenStack Company
Speakers: Simon Anderson (Dreamhost, Inktank), Ken Rugg (Tesora), Josh McKenty (Pivotal, Piston Cloud), Jesse Proudman (BlueBox), Joe Arnold (SwiftStack)

Making a Case for Your OpenStack Deployment: How Vendor’s Can Help
Speaker: Ryan Floyd (Storm Ventures)

Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable
Speakers: Clayton ONeill (Time Warner Cable), Matt Fischer (Time Warner Cable)

Percona & OpenStack

According to the most recent OpenStack User Survey in November 2014, Percona’s database software is a popular choice for OpenStack operators needing high availability.

OpenStack User Survey results from November 2014 shows Percona XtraDB Cluster as the top Galera-based choice for production clouds.

Percona XtraDB Cluster, the top Galera-based MySQL cluster solution for production OpenStack deployments, incorporates the latest version of MySQL 5.6, Percona Server 5.6, Percona XtraBackup, and Galera. This combination delivers top performance, high availability, and critical security coverage with the latest features and fixes. Additionally, Percona Server is a popular guest database option with unique features designed for cloud operators offering DBaaS.

In addition to sharing our open source software with the OpenStack community, Percona is sharing our expertise in services like Trove, projects like the HA Guide update, extensive benchmark testing activities, and upcoming events like OpenStack Live 2015. The inaugural OpenStack Live Conference, April 13-14 in Santa Clara, California, will be a user-focused event. The program will cover database-related on topics like Trove as well as other OpenStack services and feature multiple 3-hour hands-on tutorials.

Percona is a proud supporter of OpenStack and we hope to see you in both Santa Clara in April and Vancouver in May. And in the meantime, don’t forget to vote!

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I attended the OpenStack Paris summit last month (Percona had a booth there). It was my first opportunity to meet face-to-face with this thriving community of developers and users. I’m proud that Percona is part of this open source family and look forward to reconnecting with many of the developers and users I met in Paris – as well as meeting new faces – at OpenStack Live in Silicon Valley April 13-14.

OpenStack summits, generally held twice a year, are the place where (for the most part) developers meet and design “in the open,” as the OpenStack organization says. OpenStack Live 2015, held in parallel with the annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, will be a unique opportunity for users and enthusiasts to learn from leading OpenStack experts in the field about top cloud strategies, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing OpenStack and its MySQL database core.

OpenStack Live will also provide some serious classroom-style learning. Percona announced the OpenStack Live tutorials sessions a couple days ago. Most sessions are three hours long and because they really are “hands-on” require that you bring your laptop – and a power cord (not to be confused with a “power chord,” though those also welcome”).

Let’s take a closer look at the OpenStack Live tutorial sessions.

“Barbican: Securing Your Secrets.” Join Rackspace gurus Douglas Mendizábal, Chelsea Winfree and Steve Heyman on a tour through the magical world of Barbican (yes, they are dedicated members of the Barbican project).

Don’t be intimidated if don’t have any previous experience with Barbican (and if you’ve never heard of it, more the reason to attend!). A basic understanding of security components (such as keys and certificates) and a basic understanding of ReST is helpful, but not required.

By the end of the class you will know:
1)   Importance of secret storage
2)   How to store & retrieve secrets with Barbican
3)   How to submit an order with Barbican
4)   How to create a container
5)   Use cases for Barbican / Examples
6)   The future of Barbican –Ordering SSL Certs

“Deploying, Configuring and Operating OpenStack Trove.” As the title suggests, these three hours focus squarely on Trove. The tutorial – led by Tesora founder & CTO Amrith Kumar, along with Doug Shelley, the company’s vice president of product development – will begin with a quick overview of OpenStack and the various services.

If you attend this tutorial you’ll actually deploy your own OpenStack environment – and create and manage a Nova (compute) instance using a command line and a graphical user interface (Horizon). And the fun continues! You’ll then install and configure Trove, and create and manage a single MySQL instance. Finally, pupils will create and operate a simple replicated MySQL instance pair and ensure that data is being properly replicated from master to slave.

“Essential DevStack.” DevStack is an opinionated script to quickly create an OpenStack development environment. It can also be used to demonstrate starting/running OpenStack services and provide examples of using them from a command line. The power of DevStack lies within small trick that if people understand can hugely improve the contribution effectiveness, quality and required time. This three-hour tutorial will be led by Red Hat senior software engineer Swapnil Kulkarni.

“OpenStack Networking Introduction,” with PLUMgrid’s Valentina Alaria and Brendan Howes. Buckle your seat belts! Designed for IT professionals looking to expand their OpenStack “networking” (no, not the LinkedIn sort of networking) knowledge, OpenStack Networking Fundamentals will be a comprehensive and fast-paced course.

This half-day training provides an overview of OpenStack, its components and then dives deep into OpenStack Networking – the features and plugin model and its role in building an OpenStack Cloud. The training is concluded with a hands-on lab to bring all the concepts together.

OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Introduction [1 hour]
– Goal of Neutron
– Architecture of Neutron
– Plugin Architecture
– Use cases for Neutron
– What’s new in Juno & what’s planned for Kilo

OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Advanced [1 hour]
– Interaction with other OpenStack components (Compute & Storage)
– Designing Neutron for HA
– Installing Neutron
– Troubleshooting Neutron

Hands-on Lab [1 hour]
– Creation of tenant networks
– Configuration of external connectivity
– Advanced Features Configurati

Percona’s director of conferences, Kortney Runyan, offered a sneak peek at the OpenStack sessions last week. Attendees of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015 (April 13-16, 2015) with full-pass access are also welcome to attend OpenStack Live sessions. The two conferences are running in parallel, which is very exciting since there will be crossover opportunities between them.

I hope to see you next April! And be sure to take advantage of Early Bird pricing for OpenStack Live (register here).
And if you are an organizer of an OpenStack (or MySQL) Meetup and need some financial help, Percona is happy to chip in as a sponsor. Just let me know and I’ll work with you to set that up! You can drop me a note in the comments and I’ll contact you offline.

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On behalf of the OpenStack Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the inaugural OpenStack Live 2015 Conference! This new annual conference, running in parallel with the already established Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, will feature one day of tutorials followed by a full day of breakout sessions April 13-14, in Santa Clara, Calif.

Though the entire conference schedule won’t be finalized until early January, this initial list of talks is sure to spark interest! So without further ado, here is he OpenStack Live 2015 SNEAK PEEK SCHEDULE!

“Deploying an OpenStack Cloud at Scale at Time Warner Cable”
-Matthew Fischer, Principal Software Engineer for OpenStack DevOps at Time Warner Cable, and Clayton O’Neill, Principal Software Engineer for OpenStack Cloud at Time Warner Cable

“An Introduction to Database as a Service with an Emphasis on OpenStack Using Trove”
-Amrith Kumar, Founder and CTO of Tesora, Inc., and Tushar Katarki, Director of Product Management at Percona

“Lightweight OpenStack Benchmarking Service with Rally and Docker”
-Swapnil Kulkarni, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

“MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive”
-Peter Boros, Principal Architect at Percona

This is just a small taste of what will be presented at OpenStack Live 2015 conference this spring. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing OpenStack and its MySQL database core.

As a special bonus, OpenStack Live attendees attendees will also have access to the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo keynotes, receptions, exhibition hall, and Birds of a Feather sessions on April 13 and 14, allowing them to dive deeper into MySQL topics such as high availability, security, performance optimization, and much more.

Registration for OpenStack Live 2015 is now open… register now with Early Bird pricing! Hope to see you there!

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