Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Peter Zaitsev at last year’s Percona University event in Montevideo

Later this week I’m excited to depart on a trip to South America. First I will stop in Montevideo, Uruguay, to meet with Percona’s team out there as well as to participate in our next Percona University event on April 29.

For those who do not know, Percona University events are free to attend and packed with technical presentations about MySQL and surrounding technologies, delivered by members of the Percona team and community speakers. Even though attendance is free, because space is limited you will need to register now to ensure that we have space for everyone.

Next stop will be Brazil, where I’ll be speaking at the local São Paulo MySQL Meetup group on May 6 and then on to Porto Alegre where I’ll speak at FISL (the International Free Software Forum) (May 9 14:00) about the “Practical Optimization of MySQL.”

If you’re also attending FISL and would like to connect at the show drop me a note at ceo AT percona.com.

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Following our events earlier this year in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Portland, we bring Percona University to Washington, D.C. on September 12.

This free one-day technical education event will cover many MySQL ecosystem technologies, including: Percona Server, MariaDB, MySQL 5.6, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Tungsten Replicator, Percona XtraBackup, MySQL Cluster and Percona Toolkit. We also will learn about Apache Hadoop and how it can be most successfully used with MySQL environments.

Matt Yonkovit, VP of Percona MySQL Consulting, will give his great talk on the “5 minute DBA,” drawing from a wealth of practical DBA tips for developers and system administrators – professionals who must step up to the plate on occasion and perform DBA tasks.

Ryan Huddleston, director of Percona Remote DBA, will talk about “MySQL Backups in the Real World,” sharing best practices you’ll want to follow if you never want to lose your data again – as well as being able to recover from various data incidents as quickly as possible.

Our special guest for this event is Baron Schwartz, co-Founder and CEO of VividCortex, who will be speaking about Using MySQL with Go. Go Programming language is quickly gaining popularity and we’re excited to bring the most up to date information about using Go with MySQL database.

If you will be in the Washington, D.C. area on September 12, I’d love to see you at this event – space is limited though, so please register now.  And if you’re interested in Percona University events and would like to bring one to your city, please fill out this form to let us know – especially if you can help us by hosting or promoting the event.

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We’re less than a week away from Percona MySQL University at Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest in a series of FREE one-day educational events, we are pleased to feature 10 technical talks by members of Team Percona as well as local members of the MySQL Community:

• Vadim Tkachenko, Percona co-Founder and CTO, will talk about Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6
• Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA team, will talk about MHA for MySQL High Availability in the Cloud
• Matt Yonkovit, our VP of Consulting, will explain how to work with BigData effectively
• Justin Swanhart, our Senior MySQL Instructor, will continue the topic of BigData with a talk titled, “Conquering BigData with MySQL and Shard Query“
• Daniel Nichter, lead of the Percona Toolkit development team, will survey Percona Toolkit Command Line Tools – as well as go into more detail about using pt-table-checksum tool to verify replication integrity
• And finally, Andrew Ferlitsch will share with how MySQL can be used to provide access to government data.

The daylong event will be held at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union, located at 1825 SW Broadway, Suite 327/8/9 Portland, Oregon 97201. Afterward, we’ll have a networking reception at the famed Paddy’s Bar and Grill sponsored by Tag1 Consulting featuring great networking possibilities and free drinks for event attendees.

If you’re in the Portland area and work with MySQL, then this is an event you can’t afford to miss…   So register now!

Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland

If you love the ideal of Percona MySQL University and would like us to bring the event to your city, please let us know!

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Peter Zaitsev leads a track at the inaugural Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

Portland is a well-recognized hub for Open Source technologies in the Northwest, home to conferences such as OSCON and Open Source Bridge as well as hosts of OpenSQL Camp in 2009. As such it is a very natural place for our next Percona MySQL University event scheduled for June 17.

We run this event in partnership with MySQL Meetup at Portland organized by our own Daniel Nichter, who recently moved to the area.

Percona MySQL University is a daylong, free, fast-paced and very technical MySQL educational event for wide range of people interested in MySQL – Developers, System Administrators, DBAs, etc. It will be held at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union.

We’ll finalize the schedule next week and still have some speaking opportunities available – if you would like to share your MySQL story at this event please email Matthew Dowell by Tuesday, May 28.

If you’re not in Portland and would like Percona MySQL University to come to your city, please fill out the form to let us know. We’ll try to come to the cities showing greatest interest.

As usual space is limited, so Register Now!

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Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev leads a track at Percona MySQL University in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

Percona MySQL University, Toronto is taking place this Friday and I’m very excited about this event because it is a special opportunity to fit a phenomenal number of specific and focused MySQL technical talks all into one day, for free.

Over the course of the day we will cover some of the hottest topics in the MySQL space. There will be talks covering topics like MySQL 5.6, MySQL in the Cloud and High Availability for MySQL, as well as Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL. We have talks planned for nearly every MySQL developer and DBA, from anyone  just starting with MySQL all the way to those of you who are seasoned MySQL Experts.

In addition to the conference presentations, we are providing you the opportunity to spend 45 (complementary) minutes one-on-one with a Percona MySQL Consulting expert.  Do not delay in reserving your time with a Percona Expert, as the number of available slots are very limited. Reserve your slot from Percona MySQL University event registration page.

Finally we’re going to have a raffle at the end of the day. The prizes include a ticket next month’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – the largest event of the year in MySQL ecosystem, a full week of Percona Training, a Percona MySQL Support subscription, and more valuable prices.

Percona MySQL University will be held at the FreshBooks offices at 35 Golden Avenue, Suite 105, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2J5. Directions along with the day’s complete agenda and registration details are on our Eventbright page.

We hope you’ll join us and invite your friends and colleagues !

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Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev leads a track at the inaugural Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

Following our events in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Percona MySQL University comes to Toronto on March 22nd.

This is going to our most dense event yet, absolutely packed with information. Even though we have just 1 track we have 12 talks and 11 speakers. We had unique opportunity this time because Percona’s Consulting, Support, RemoteDBA, Training team are having internal meeting at the start of the week so we had many speakers available.

Specifically the MySQL High Availability, Replication, Clustering are getting a lot of coverage.

Special thanks to FreshBooks who kindly agreed to host this event at their office.

Event is FREE but space is limited, so reserve your space by registering now!

More info
What is Percona MySQL University? It’s a series of one-day, free events designed to educate and inform developers and system architects on the latest and greatest MySQL products, services and technologies. The practical knowledge you’ll receive will help you be more successful in tackling your own MySQL challenges. Percona MySQL University is an opportunity to learn from, and connect with, some of the world’s top experts in MySQL performance and scaling. It’s also a fantastic networking opportunity among your MySQL peers.

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Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev leads a track at the inaugural Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

Thank you to everyone who attended Percona MySQL University in Raleigh, N.C. We had a great turnout and a lot of positive feedback!

What’s next for Percona MySQL University? Next week we’re going to hold events in Montevideo and Buenos Aires which are gathering significant local interest!

In March we’re focusing on Toronto – We’ll be having a team meeting and running an event at the same time to ensure that we have some great speakers available.

As such we’re looking for venue in Toronto to hold this Free MySQL Educational event. If you can host or can recommend a venue, give us a heads up.

Our requirement is essentially a single room with a projector hookup which can hold 100-150 people for a full day at a convenient local location.
Local universities or companies which may have a large enough meeting space have been a great fit for us in the past.

Please comment below if you are able to host or have some ideas on venues!

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Following our Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh,NC Percona MySQL University comes to South America! We’ll have a Full day FREE MySQL Technical Educational events in Montevideo on February 5th, 2013 and Buenos Aires on February 7th.

I’m very excited to bring these events to MySQL Community in Uruguay and Argentina. This is my first trip to South America and it looks like it is going to be a lot of fun!

With Percona MySQL University events, we focus on MySQL Education for broad group of users. We’ve specially prepared talks that will be interesting for people just starting with MySQL to experienced MySQL developers and DBAs. So whether you’re a college student or an experienced MySQL professional, you should find something of value.

Two of very exciting topics we’re going to cover are discussions on MySQL 5.6 with “MySQL 5.6: Advantages in a nutshell” as well as  the great new Replication an Clustering solution for MySQL based on Galera technology with “High availability and clustering with Percona XtraDB Cluster.” Some of the talks are going to be delivered in Spanish.

The event will also provide great networking opportunities and I hope you will make many new friends in MySQL Space from attending this event.

Finally let me thank the ORT University and Gallito for supporting Percona MySQL University in Montevideo.

Space is limited so do not delay, register now for Montevideo or Buenos Aires!

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At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups and have published our knowledge in our “High Performance MySQL” book. We answer your questions on our forums, and host free technical Webinars. And for more intense MySQL educational experiences we offer MySQL Training and facilitate knowledge exchange at our Percona Live Conferences.

As if it were not enough, we’re adding another way for our community to learn more about MySQL and Percona products and to meet some of the Percona Team: Introducing “Percona MySQL University.”

Percona MySQL University is a single-day, one-track technical event which we plan to run in various locations across the U.S. and around the world with speakers from the Percona Team and the local MySQL community. These events will be free or very low cost so it should be easy for you to attend them.

We believe the Percona MySQL University events can fill the gap between MySQL meetups and Percona Live Conferences. The full-day format will allow for deeper immersion and more learning and networking opportunities, while the smaller single-track format will allow us to keep these events accessible and run them in the city closest to you.

As the title says we’re running our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. on January 29th. We welcome you to attend and spread the world. Remember to register early as we have limited space available!

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