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The many hours of intensive tutorials, led by some of the top minds in MySQL, have always been a major draw each year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. And 2015’s event will be no exception.

Percona Live 2015 runs April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif. and the first day is dedicated to the classroom – so bring your laptops for the combined 45 hours of learning. MySQL tutorials are included with the full-conference pass but a “tutorial-only pass” is also available. Super-saver registration discounts have been extended until Dec. 19. Here’s a look at this year’s tutorials lineup. (There will be a couple more announced in January).

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  Percona’s Bill Karwin leads a tutorial on MySQL tuning at Percona Live London 2014.

  “Advanced MySQL Replication Features Roundup” with Giuseppe Maxia, QA Director at Continuent (3 hours)

• “Be ‘Backup Ready’ for all Disasters!” with Percona’s Roman Vynar and Akshay Suryawanshi (3 hours)
• “Building an Operational Visibility Stack for MySQL” with Pythian’s Laine Campbell and Derek Downey (3 hours)
• “Deploying MySQL HA with Ansible and Vagrant” with Percona’s Daniel Guzman Burgos and Robert Barabas (3 hours)
• InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization” with Percona’s Peter Zaitsev (3 hours)
• “MySQL Break/Fix Lab” with Pythian’s Gillian Gunson, Miklos Szel (6 hours)
• “Operational DBA in a Nutshell! Hands On Tutorial!” with Percona’s terrific trio of Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp (6 hours)
• “Percona XtraDB Cluster / Galera in Practice – 2015 Edition” starring Percona’s Jay Janssen (6 hours)
• “Ramp-up Tutorial for MySQL Cluster – Scaling with Continuous Availability” with René Cannaò (3 hours)
• “Tuning MySQL: It’s About Performance” with Percona’s intrepid Bill Karwin (3 hours)
• “Using TokuDB: A Guided Walk Through of TokuDB Implementation” with Tokutek’s Jon Tobin

And that’s just on Monday! There will be much more over the four days of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015. I posted a sneak peek of the full Percona Live (initial) roster a couple weeks ago. And remember, super-saver registration discounts have been extended until Dec. 19 so register now – and don’t forgot your laptop (and power cord)!

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From left: Liz van Dijk, Frédéric Descamps and Kenny Gryp

If you’re following this blog, it’s quite likely you’re already aware of the Percona Live London 2014 conference coming up in just a few days. Just in case, though (you know, if you’re still looking for an excuse to sign up), I wanted to put a spotlight on the tutorial to be delivered by my esteemed colleagues Frédéric Descamps (@lefred) and Kenny Gryp (@gryp), and myself.

The past two years at Percona we’ve been spending a substantial amount of time working with customers taking their first steps into creating Highly Available MySQL environments built on Galera. Percona XtraDB Cluster allows you to get it up and running very fast, but as any weathered “HA” DBA will tell you, building the cluster is only the beginning. (Percona XtraDB Cluster is an open source (free) high-availability and high-scalability solution for MySQL clustering.)

Any cluster technology is likely to introduce a great amount of complexity to your environment, and in our tutorial we want to show you not only how to get started, but also how to avoid many of the operational pitfalls we’ve encountered. Our tutorial, Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell, will be taking place on Monday 3 November and is a full-day (6 hours) session, with an intense hands-on approach.

We’ll be covering a great deal of practical topics, such as:

• Things to keep in mind when migrating an existing environment over to PXC
• How to manage and maintain the cluster, keeping it in good shape
• Load balancing requests across the cluster
• Considerations for deploying PXC in the cloud

Planning on attending? Be sure to come prepared! Given the hands-on approach of the tutorial, make sure you bring your laptop with enough disk space (~20GB) and processing power to run at least 4 small VirtualBox VM’s.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the 4th year in a row, I’ll perpetuate the organization of the MySQL & Friends Devroom.

FOSDEM 2015 edition will be held January 31 and February 1 here in Brussels. The MySQL & Friends Devroom is back on Sunday from 9 a.m. What is FOSDEM? It stands for the “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting.” It’s a free event that offers open-source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

As every year, the “Call for Papers” has been announced on the MySQL mailing list, and you can still read it here. CfP is open until December 7th!

This year the committee responsible for the talk’s selection is composed by:

* Dimitri Kravtchuk, representing Oracle
* Daniël van Eeden for the Community
* Roland Bouman for the Community
* Cédric Peintre for the Community
* Liz van Dijk, representing Percona
* Serge Frezefond, representing MariaDB
* René Cannaò, representing Blackbird IT

Thanks to all who have accepted playing this role and I wish them to work hard and make the best schedule as possible.

Don’t forget to submit your sessions (submit here, don’t forget to select MySQL track) in time and see you soon in Brussels to discover amazing stuff related to MySQL and have some beers with Friends!

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