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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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In April and May, Percona will hold and participate in two OpenStack events: OpenStack Live and the OpenStack Summit. Join our talks at these events in Santa Clara and Vancouver for new insights into the MySQL operations of the core of OpenStack as well as the latest information on MySQL guest instances.

Next week (April 13-14), Percona will host OpenStack Live at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Conveniently located for those in the Bay Area, this two day, user-focused event will cover many core aspects of OpenStack including Nova, Swift, Neutron, and Trove as well as related technologies like Ceph and Docker. (OpenStack Live passes include access to keynotes and the expo hall at the Percona Live MySQL Conference.)

OpenStack Live will be a packed two days with 6 hands-on tutorials, 18 sessions, and keynotes and panel discussions featuring speakers from Facebook, EMC, ObjectRocket, Percona, Yahoo, VMware, Deep Information Sciences, and special guest, Steve Wozniak. Yes, the real Steve Wozniak.

Of course I’m looking forward to my session, “An introduction to Database as a Service with an emphasis on OpenStack using Trove,” with Amrith Kumar, Founder and CTO of Tesora, on Tuesday from 11:30am – 12:20pm in Room 209. Some other topics you shouldn’t miss include:

Tutorial: Deploying, Configuring and Operating OpenStack Trove
Monday, April 13: 9:30am – 12:30pm in Room 203
Amrith Kumar (Tesora) and Sriram Kalyanasundaram (Tesora) will lead a 3 hour hands-on tutorial on Trove DBaaS. It’s rare to get such a focused tutorial on this key component of OpenStack and led by Tesora, major contributors to the Trove project. If you are even considering implementing Trove for your cloud, this is a must-attend class.

Tutorial: How to Get Your Groove on with OpenStack Swift Object Storage
Monday, April 13: 1:30pm – 4:30pm in Room 204
John Dickinson (OpenStack Swift), Manzoor Brar (SwiftStack), and Sergei Glushenko (Percona) will lead the audience on a journey into Swift, OpenStack’s object store project. John, the Swift “Project Team Lead” (PTL), and Manzoor will show you how to deploy a Swift cluster, use it with real applications, and, with the assistance of Sergei from Percona, how to properly backup MySQL databases to a Swift cluster.

Sessions which I’d recommend attending are:

Session: MySQL and OpenStack deep dive
Tuesday, April 14: 11:30am – 12:20pm in Room 204
Peter Boros (Percona)

Session: Deploying a OpenStack Cloud at Scale at Time Warner Cable
Tuesday, April 14: 1:20pm – 2:10pm in Room 203
Matthew Fischer (Time Warner Cable), Clayton O’Neill (Time Warner Cable)

Session: Designing a highly resilient Network Infrastructure for OpenStack Clouds
Tuesday, April 14: 3:50pm – 4:40pm in Room 203
Pere Monclus (PLUMgrid)

This is only a small sample of the tutorials and talks which you will hear at OpenStack Live. If you’re in the Bay Area next week and are interested in OpenStack or just want to learn more about some of the core components, register today to join us in Santa Clara from April 13-14. It will be well worth the investment.

As a reminder, getting the most out of all tutorials at OpenStack Live requires that you bring your own laptop and are ready to dig into the technologies. Review the session descriptions for any materials that should be downloaded or installed prior to the event.

Talks at OpenStack Summit Vancouver

Next month, Percona will join thousands in Vancouver for the next OpenStack Summit. In addition to helping those developing and running OpenStack to operate, optimize, and achieve high availability of the MySQL core, Percona MySQL experts will speak in two sessions.

Deep Dive into MySQL replication with OpenStack Trove, and Kilo
George Lorch (Percona) and Amrith Kumar (Tesora) will present an in depth exploration of MySQL replication with Trove and Kilo capabilities. This is a great way for anyone interested in OpenStack DBaaS to find out the latest information.

Core Services MySQL Database Backup and Recovery to Swift
Most OpenStack services rely heavily on MySQL, but how do you mitigate data loss in the event of a failed upgrade or unplanned outage? Kenny Gryp (Percona) and Chris Nelson (SwiftStack), experts in MySQL and storage, will discuss this challenge and provide advice and strategies for a fast, complete recovery from highly available storage sources.

The team from Percona will again be found in the exhibit hall at booth T37. We’re looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones that rely on Percona software, such as the Galera-based Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona XtraBackup, in their OpenStack clouds.

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Founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses, Yelp has some 135 million monthly unique visitors. With those traffic volumes Yelp’s 300+ engineers are constantly working to keep things moving smoothly – and when you move that fast you learn many things.

Fortunately for the global MySQL community, three Yelp DBAs will be sharing what they’ve learned at the annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this April 13-16 in Santa Clara, California.

Say “hello” to Susanne Lehmann, Jenni Snyder and Josh Snyder! I chatted with them over email about their presentations, on how MySQL is used at Yelp, and about the shortage of women in MySQL.

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Tom: Jenni, you and Josh will be co-presenting “Next generation monitoring: moving beyond Nagios ” on April 14.

You mentioned that Yelp’s databases scale dynamically, and so does your monitoring of those databases. And to minimize human intervention, you’ve created a Puppet and Sensu monitoring ensemble… because “if it’s not monitored, it’s not in production.” Talk to me more about Yelp’s philosophy of “opt-out monitoring.” What does that entail? How does that help Yelp?

Jenni: Before we moved to Sensu, our Nagios dashboards were a sea of red, muted, acknowledged, or disabled service checks. In fact, we even had a cluster check to make sure that we never accidentally put a host into use that was muted or marked for downtime. It was possible for a well-meaning operator to acknowledge checks on a host and forget about it, and I certainly perpetrated a couple of instances of disks filling up after acknowledging a 3am “warning” page that I’d rather forget about. With Sensu, hosts and services come out of the downtime/acknowledgement state automatically after a number of days, ensuring that we’re kept honest and stay on top of issues that need to be addressed.

Also, monitoring is deployed with a node, not separate monitoring configuration. Outside of a grace period we employ when a host is first provisioned or rebooted, if a host is up, it’s being monitored and alerting. Also, alerting doesn’t always mean paging. We also use IRC and file tickets directly into our tracking system when we don’t need eyes on a problem right away.

Tom: Susanne, in your presentation, titled “insert cassandra into prod where use_case=?;” you’ll discuss the situations you’ve encountered where MySQL just wasn’t the right tool for the job.

What led up to that discovery and how did you come up with finding the right tools (and what were they) to run alongside and support MySQL?

Susanne: Our main force behind exploring other datastores alongside MySQL was that Yelp is growing outside the US market a lot. Therefore we wanted the data to be nearer to the customer and needed multi-master writes.

Also, we saw use cases where our application data was organized very key-value like and not relational, which made them a better fit for a NoSQL solution.

We decided to use Cassandra as a datastore and I plan to go more into detail why during my talk. Now we offer developers more choices on how to store our application data, but we also believe in the “right tool for the job” philosophy and might add more solutions to the mix in the future.

Tom: Jenni, you’ll also be presenting “Schema changes multiple times a day? OK!” I know that you and your fellow MySQL DBAs are always improving and also finding better ways of supporting new and existing features for Yelp users like me. Delivering on such a scale must entail some unique processes and tools. Does this involve a particular mindset among your fellow DBAs? Also, what are some of those key tools – and processes and how are they used?

Jenni: Yelp prizes the productivity of our developers and our ability to iterate and develop new features quickly. In order to do that, we need to be able to not only create new database tables, but also modify existing ones, many of which are larger than MySQL can alter without causing considerable replication delay. The first step is to foster a culture of automated testing, monitoring, code reviews, and partnership between developers and DBAs to ensure that we can quickly & safely roll out schema changes. In my talk, I’ll be describing tools that we’ve talked about before, like our Gross Query Checker, as well as the way the DBA team works with developers while still getting the rest of our work done. The second, easy part is using a tool like pt-online-schema-change to run schema changes online without causing replication delay or degrading performance

Tom: Josh, you’ll also be speaking on “Bootstrapping databases in a single command: elastic provisioning for the win.” What is “elastic provisioning” and how are you using it for Yelp’s tooling?

Josh: When I say that we use elastic provisioning, I mean that we can reliably and consistently build a database server from scratch, with minimal human involvement. The goal is to encompass every aspect of the provisioning task, including configuration, monitoring, and even load balancing, in a single thoroughly automated process. With this process in place, we’ve found ourselves able to quickly allocate and reallocate resources, both in our datacenters and in the cloud. Our tools for implementing the above goals give us greater confidence in our infrastructure, while avoiding single-points of failure and achieving the maximum possible level of performance. We had a lot of fun building this system, and we think that many of the components involved are relevant to others in the field.

Tom: Susanne and Jenni, last year at Percona Live there was a BoF session titled “MySQL and Women (or where are all the women?).” The idea was to discuss why there are “just not enough women working on the technology side of tech.” In a nutshell, the conversation focused on why there are not more women in MySQL and why so relatively few attend MySQL conferences like Percona Live.

The relative scarcity of women in technical roles was also the subject of an article published in the August 2014 issue of Forbes, citing a recent industry report.

Why, in your (respective) views, do you (or don’t) think that there are so few women in MySQL? And how can this trend be reversed?

Susanne: I think there are few women in MySQL and the reasons are manifold. Of course there is the pipeline problem. Then there is the problem, widely discussed right now, that women who are entering STEM jobs are less likely staying in there. These are reasons not specific for MySQL jobs, but rather for STEM in general. What is more specific for database/MySQL jobs is, in my opinion, that often times DBAs need to be on call, they need to stay in the office if things go sideways. Database problems tend often to be problems that can’t wait till the next morning. That makes it more demanding when you have a family for example (which is true for men as well of course, but seems still to be more of a problem for women).

As for how to reverse the trend, I liked this Guardian article because it covers a lot of important points. There is no easy solution.

I like that more industry leaders and technology companies are discussing what they can do to improve diversity these days. In general, it really helps to have a great professional (female) support system. At Yelp, we have AWE, the Awesome Women in Engineering group, in which Jenni and I are both active. We participate in welcoming women to Yelp engineering, speaking at external events and workshops to help other women present their work, mentoring, and a book club.

Jenni: I’m sorry that I missed Percona Live and this BoF last year; I was out on maternity leave. I believe that tech/startup culture is a huge reason that fewer women are entering and staying these days, but a quick web search will lead you to any number of articles debating the subject. I run into quite a few women working with MySQL; it’s large, open community and generally collaborative and supportive nature is very welcoming. As the article you linked to suggests, MySQL has a broad audience. It’s easy to get started with and pull into any project, and as a result, most software professionals have worked with it at some time or another.

On another note, I’m happy to see that Percona Live has a Code of Conduct. I hope that Percona and/or MySQL will consider adopting a Community Code of Conduct like Python, Puppet, and Ubuntu. Doing so raises the bar for all participants, without hampering collaboration and creativity!

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Thanks very much, Susanne, Jenni and Josh! I look forward to seeing you next month at the conference. And readers, if you’d like to attend Percona Live, use the promo code Yelp15 for 15% off! Just enter that during registration. If you’re already attending, be sure to tweet about your favorite sessions using the hashtag #PerconaLive. And if you need to find a great place to eat while attending Percona Live, click here for excellent Yelp recommendations.

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So you want to contribute to OpenStack? I can help!

For the last year or so I have been involved with OpenStack and more specifically the Trove (DBaaS) project as sort of an ambassador for Percona, contributing bits of knowledge, help and debugging wherever I could and thought I would share some of my experience with others that wanted to get involved with OpenStack development, documentation, testing, etc. Getting started with OpenStack contributions is also the idea behind my talk next month at Percona OpenStack Live 2015. (Percona Live attendees have access to OpenStack Live)

Back at the last OpenStack Conference and Design Summit in Paris last November, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the two-day OpenStack Upstream Training hosted by Stefano Maffulli, Loic Dachary and several other very kind and generous folks. If you ever find yourself in a position to attend one of these training sessions, I strongly suggest that you take advantage of the opportunity, you will not be disappointed.

Using some of the material from the OpenStack Foundation and a little personal experience, I’m going to go through some of the basics of what you’ll need to know if you want to contribute. There are several steps but they are mostly painless:

– It all starts with a little bit of legal work such as signing a either an individual or corporate contributor agreement.

– You will need to decide on a project or projects that you want to contribute to. Chances are that you already have one in mind.

– Find the various places where other contributors to that project hang out, usually there is a mailing list and IRC channel. Logon, introduce yourself, make some friends and sit and listen to what they are working on. Find the PTL (Project Team Lead) and remember his/her name. Let him/her know who you are, who you work for, what you are interested in, etc. Sit in on their meetings, ask questions but don’t be a pest. Observe a little etiquette, be polite and humble and you will reap many rewards later on.

– Eventually you will need to find and get the code and install whatever tools are necessary for that project, build it, stand up a test/working environment, play with it and understand what the various moving parts are. Ask more questions, etc.

– Do you think you are ready to do some coding and submit a patch? Talk to the PTL and get a lightweight bug or maybe a documentation task to work on.

– In order to submit a patch you will need to understand the workflow use the OpenStack gerrit review system which takes a little bit of time to understand if you have never used gerrit before. You’ll need to find and install git-review. Here is where making friends above really helps out. In every project there are usually going to be a few folks around with the time and patience to help you work through your first review.

– Find a bit of a mentor to help you with the mechanics in case you run into trouble, could just be the PTL if he/she has the time, make your patch, send it in and work through the review process.

– As with most peer review situations, you’ll need to remember never to take things personally. A negative review comment is not an insult to you and your family! Eventually your patch will either be accepted and merged upstream (yay!) or rejected and possibly abandoned in favor of some alternative (boo!). If rejected, fret not! Talk to the PTL and your new friends to try and understand the reason why if the review comments were unclear and simply try again.

It is that easy!

Come join me on Tuesday, April 14th in Santa Clara, California and we’ll chat about how you can begin contributing to OpenStack.

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Apple’s Steve “Woz” Wozniak will talk at Percona Live 2015

I am thrilled to announce that Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during this year’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California.

In addition to “The Woz,” as Steve is nicknamed, we have a great lineup of esteemed industry luminaries, with a broad range of talks and tutorials along with fun and informative networking events during the four-day conference (April 13-16).

Harrison Fisk of Facebook’s Database Performance Team will deliver a keynote titled “Polyglot Persistence @Facebook” exploring why Facebook has so many different data solutions deployed at scale and how the company decides to deploy a new one. He’ll also talk about how Facebook is able to manage all these solutions and what types of optimizations are possible across all their data systems.

‘MySQL 101’ program announced
I wrote about the new “MySQL 101” program earlier this week. Largely driven by the broad demand for (and scarcity of) MySQL expertise across many industries, Percona Live is adding dual tracks for both developers and system administrators that will provide a 2-day course on MySQL fundamentals.

The two days of practical training will include everything needed to handle day-to-day MySQL DBA tasks. The motto of this new program is, “You send us developers and admins, and we will send you back MySQL DBAs.” You can check out the full schedule for MySQL 101 here.

Lightning Talks and Birds of a Feather Sessions
In related news, today we also announced the schedules for the popular “Lightning Talks” and “Birds of a Feather Sessions” (BoFs).

BoFs sessions enable attendees with interests in the same project or topic to enjoy some quality face time. The BoF sessions will take place Tuesday night, April 14, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This year’s topics include:

• “Everything About MySQL Bugs” presented by Seta Smirnova, senior principal technical support engineer, and Valerii Kravchuk, principle support engineer at Percona
• “MySQL Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and MariaDB Galera Cluster” presented by Jay Janseen, managing consultant at Percona
• “Data Security – Emerging Legal Trends” presented by S. Keith Moulsdale, partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston
• “WebScaleSQL Meeting/Hacking” presented by Steaphan Greene, software engineer at WebScaleSQL

Lightning Talks provide an opportunity for attendees to propose, explain, exhort, and rant on any MySQL-related topic for five minutes. Lightning Talks will take place Wednesday night, (April 15) during the MySQL Community Networking Reception, which begins immediately following the breakout sessions. They include:

• “Working From Home – Fun, Facts and Scares” presented by Raghavendra Prabhu, product lead, Percona XtraDB Cluster at Percona
• “The Future of MySQL Quality Assurance: Introducing pquery” presented by Roel Van de Paar, senior QA lead, and Ramesh Sivaraman, junior QA engineer at Percona

Community Reception
One of the most fun and compelling aspects of the Percona Live is the networking, providing the opportunity to make connections that can help enhance a career, facilitate a current project, or inspire new ideas. This year’s conference features the Community Networking Reception in the Expo Hall on Wednesday, April 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The event will include the MySQL Community Awards and the Lightning Talks.

Conference Registration Promotions
Advanced pricing discounts are still available but will end on March 8. Register soon to take advantage of the best conference rates available. A Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Ticket provides you with access to all OpenStack Live sessions. In addition, in the spirit of the new MySQL 101 track, the first 101 people who sign-up for MySQL 101 using the “101” discount code will get their tickets for a $101 – a $299 savings! Attendees of MySQL 101 will have full access to Percona Live Keynotes and the Expo Hall.

See you next month!

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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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It’s hard to believe that the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is just over two months away (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, California). So if you’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for the popular “Lightning Talks” and/or “Birds of a Feather” sessions, it’s time to get moving because the deadline to do so if February 13.

Lightning Talks provide an opportunity for attendees to propose, explain, exhort, or rant on any MySQL-related topic for five minutes. Topics might include a new idea, successful project, cautionary story, quick tip, or demonstration. All submissions will be reviewed, and the top 10 will be selected to present during the one-hour Lightning Talks session on Wednesday (April 15) during the Community Networking Reception. Lighthearted, fun or otherwise entertaining submissions are highly welcome. Submit your proposal here.

“MySQL 101″ is coming to Percona Live 2015.

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions enable attendees with interests in the same project or topic to enjoy some quality face time. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (e.g., best practices, open data, standards). Any attendee or conference speaker can propose and moderate an engaging BoF. Percona will post the selected topics and moderators online and provide a meeting space and time. The BoF sessions will be held Tuesday night, (April 14) from 6- 7 p.m. Submit your BoF proposal here.

This year we’re also adding a new program for MySQL “newbies.” It’s called “MySQL 101,” and the motto of this special two-day program is: “You send us developers and admins, and we will send you back MySQL DBAs.” The two days of practical training will include everything they need to know to handle day-to-day MySQL DBA tasks.

“MySQL 101,” which is not included in regular Percona Live registration, will cost $400. However, the first 101 tickets are just $101 if you use the promo code “101” during checkout.

New: 25-Minute Sessions
On the first day of the conference, Percona is now offering 25-minute talks that pack tons of great information into a shorter format to allow for a wider range of topics. The 25-minute sessions include:

I also wanted to give another shout-out to Percona Live 2015’s awesome sponsor, which include: VMware, Yahoo, Deep Information Sciences, Pythian, Codership, Machine Zone, Box, Yelp, MariaDB, SpringbokSQL, Tesora, BlackMesh, SolidFire, Severalnines, Tokutek, VividCortex, FoundationDB, ScaleArc, Walmart eCommerce and more.(Sponsorship opportunities are still available.)

The great thing about Percona Live conferences is that there is something for everyone within the MySQL ecosystem – veterans and newcomers alike. And for the first time this year, that community expands to encompass OpenStack. Percona Live attendees can also attend OpenStack Live events. Those events run April 13-14, also at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center.

OpenStack Live 2015’s awesome sponsors include: PMC Sierra and Nimble Storage!

With so much to offer this year, this is why there are several more options in terms of tickets. Click the image below for a detailed view of what access each ticket type provides.

Register here for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo.

Register here for the OpenStack Live Conference and Expo.

For full conference schedule details please visit the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo website and the OpenStack Live Conference Website!

I hope to see you in Santa Clara in a couple months!

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This April 13-14 Percona is introducing an annual conference called OpenStack Live. I’ve seen a few questions about the new event so decided to help clarify what this show is about and who should attend.

Unlike OpenStack Summits, held twice a year and dedicated to primarily to developers, OpenStack Live is an opportunity for OpenStack evaluators and users of all levels to learn from experts on topics such as how to deploy, optimize, and manage OpenStack and the role of MySQL as a crucial technology in this free and open-source cloud computing software platform. A full day of hands-on tutorials will also focus on making OpenStack users more productive and confident in this emerging technology.

Still confused about OpenStack Live 2015? Fear not! Here are the answers to commonly asked questions.

Q: Who should attend?
A: You should attend…

• if you are currently using OpenStack and want to improve your skills and knowledge
• if you are evaluating or considering using it.
• if you are a solutions provider – this is your opportunity to show the world your contributions and services

Q: Percona Live has a conference committee. Does OpenStack Live have one, too?
A: Yes and it’s a completely different committee comprised of:

• Mark Atwood, Director of Open Source Engagement at HP (Conference Chairman)
• Rich Bowen, OpenStack Community Liaison at Red Hat
• Jason Rouault, Senior Director OpenStack Cloud at Time Warner Cable
• Peter Boros, Principal Architect at Percona

Q: Are the tutorials really “hands-on”?
A: Yes and most are at least 3-hours long. So you’ll need your laptop and power cord. Here’s a look at all of the OpenStack tutorials.

Q: How meaty are the sessions?
A: Very meaty indeed! Here’s a sample:

• MySQL and OpenStack deep dive
• Replication and Clustering with OpenStack Trove
• Deploying a OpenStack Cloud at Scale at Time Warner Cable
• An introduction to Database as a Service with an emphasis on OpenStack using Trove
• Trove in the Real World – Adventures in Running Production Workloads on Upstream Code
• So, you want to contribute to OpenStack…

Q: I am going to attend the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Will my pass also include OpenStack Live 2015?
A: Yes, your Percona Live pass will be honored at the OpenStack Live conference. OpenStack Live attendees will also have access to the Percona Live/OpenStack Live Exhibit hall, keynotes, receptions and FUN activities April 13 and 16, allowing them to dive deeper into MySQL topics such as high availability, security, performance optimization, and much more. However, the OpenStack Live pass does not allow access to Percona Live breakout sessions or tutorials.

Q: Where can I register?
A: You can register here and take advantage of Early Bird discounts but those end Feb. 1 at 11:30 p.m. PST, so hurry!

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Today we announced the full conference sessions schedule for April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 and this year’s event, once again at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, looks to be the biggest yet with networking and learning opportunities for MySQL professionals and enthusiasts at all levels.

Conference sessions will run April 14-16 following each morning’s keynote addresses (the keynotes have yet to be announced). The 2015 conference features a variety of formal tracks and sessions related to high availability, DevOps, programming, performance optimization, replication and backup. They’ll also cover MySQL in the cloud, MySQL and NoSQL, MySQL case studies, security (a very hot topic), and “what’s new” in MySQL.

The sessions will be delivered by top MySQL practitioners at some of the world’s leading MySQL vendors and users, including Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp, Percona and MariaDB.

Sessions will include:

• “Better DevOps with MySQL and Docker,” Sunny Gleason, Founder, SunnyCloud
• “Big Transactions on Galera Cluster,” Seppo Jaakola, CEO, Codership
• “Database Defense in Depth,” Geoffrey Anderson, Database Operations Engineer, Box, Inc.
• “The Database is Down, Now What?” Jeremy Tinley, Senior MySQL Operations Engineer, Etsy.com
• “Encrypting MySQL data at Google,” Jeremy Cole, Sr. Systems Engineer, and Jonas Oreland, Software Developer, Google
• “High-Availability using MySQL Fabric,” Mats Kindahl, Senior Principal Software Developer, MySQL Group, Oracle
• “High Performance MySQL choices in Amazon Web Services: Beyond RDS,” Andrew Shieh, Director of Operations, SmugMug
• “How to Analyze and Tune MySQL Queries for Better Performance,” Øystein Grøvlen, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
• “InnoDB: A journey to the core III,” Davi Arnaut, Sr. Software Engineer, LinkedIn, and Jeremy Cole, Sr. Systems Engineer, Google, Inc.
• “Meet MariaDB 10.1,” Sergei Golubchik, Chief Architect, MariaDB
• “MySQL 5.7 Performance: Scalability & Benchmarks,” Dimitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect, Oracle
• “MySQL at Twitter – 2015,” Calvin Sun, Sr. Engineering Manager, and Inaam Rana, Staff Software Engineer, Twitter
• “MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale,” Shlomo Priymak, MySQL Database Engineer, Facebook
• “MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning – The 7.4.x Talk,” Johan Andersson CTO and Alex Yu, Vice President of Products, Severalnines AB
• “MySQL for Facebook Messenger,” Domas Mituzas, Database Engineer, Facebook
• “MySQL Indexing, How Does It Really Work?” Tim Callaghan, Vice President of Engineering, Tokutek
• “MySQL in the Hosted Cloud,” Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist, MariaDB
• “MySQL Security Essentials,” Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO, EffectiveMySQL
• “Scaling MySQL in Amazon Web Services,” Mark Filipi, MySQL Team Lead, Pythian
• “Online schema changes for maximizing uptime,” David Turner, DBA, Dropbox, and Ben Black, DBA, Tango
• “Upgrading to MySQL 5.6 @ scale,” Tom Krouper, Staff Database Administrator , Twitter

Of course Percona Live 2015 will also include several hours of hands-on, intensive tutorials – led by some of the top minds in MySQL. We had a post talking about the tutorials in more detail last month. Since then we added two more: “MySQL devops: initiation on how to automate MySQL deployment” and “Deploying MySQL HA with Ansible and Vagrant.” And of course Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp will once again this year host the ever-popular “Operational DBA in a Nutshell! Hands On Tutorial!”

Yahoo, VMWare, Box and Yelp are among the industry leaders sponsoring the event, and additional sponsorship opportunities are still available.

Worldwide interest in Percona Live continues to soar, and this year, for the first time, the conference will run in parallel with OpenStack Live 2015, a new Percona conference scheduled for April 13 and 14. That event will be a unique opportunity for OpenStack 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.

Best of all, your full Percona Live ticket gives you access to the OpenStack Live conference! So why not save some $$? Early Bird registration discounts are available through Feb. 1, 2015 at 11:30 p.m. PST.

I hope to see you in April!

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