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If you can make it to Manhattan next Monday, please join me at the MongoDB Community Open House. The June 1 event is free and open to all. It runs from 3:30-6:30 p.m. just across the road from MongoDB World.

The MongoDB Community Open House, held at the New York Hilton Midtown, will feature technical presentations and sessions from key members of the MongoDB open source community. A reception will be held afterward featuring plenty of food, drink and fun. Everyone who attends the will get a cool t-shirt, too. Space is limited, though, so I suggest registering now to reserve your spot.

The talks include:

• “MATH is Hard: TTL Index Configuration and Considerations,” by Kim Wilkins of Rackspace
• “Implementing MongoDB 3.0 Storage Engine,” with Facebook’s Igor Canadi and Christian Rober of Percona
• “Is it Fast: Measuring MongoDB Performance,” by Tim Callaghan of Acme Benchmarking
• “MongoDB for MySQL Users,” by Percona’s Alexander Rubin
• “Rolling out RocksDB in Production,” by Charity Majors of Facebook
• “Percona TokuMX and Percona TokuMXSE Performance Benefits,” by Percona’s Jon Tobin

In addition to the free t-shirts, food and drinks, we’ll also be raffling off some prizes, including a full-access pass to Percona Live Amsterdam, to be held this coming September 21-23. Our autumn conference, moved to a new month and venue by popular demand, will be bigger and better than ever with great speakers, tutorials and sessions around MySQL, NoSQL and data in the cloud.

The MongoDB Community Open House will be especially valuable for those unable to attend MongoDB World for budgetary reasons. Our intent is to make MongoDB World even better by adding more technical content. And if you are attending MongoDB World, I invite you to drop in even if only for a session or two.

I hope to see you Monday in NYC!

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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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The countdown is on for Europe’s largest annual MySQL event, Percona Live London 2014. The two days of technical tutorials and sessions, November 3-4, will focus on the latest MySQL industry trends, news, best practices – and a look at what’s on the near- and long-term horizon within the global MySQL ecosystem.

Percona Live London 2014 will bring attendees up to date on key areas including MySQL 5.7, database security, database as a service (DBaaS), Hadoop and high availability (HA), disaster recovery, replication and backup, performance and scalability, WebScaleSQL and much, much more.

Team Oracle will be in London, led by Tomas Ulin, vice president of Oracle’s MySQL engineering team, who will explain why MySQL just keeps getting better with the latest news for the MySQL Database, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Workbench… and more. Oracle’s Luis Soares, principle software engineer, and Andrew Morgan, MySQL HA product management, will provide insight into what’s in the latest 5.7 development milestone release and also what’s going on in the labs… particularly around MySQL replication. Seize the opportunity to learn how to leverage MySQL 5.7 replication to grow your business from their session, “MySQL Replication: What’s New in 5.7 and Beyond.”

If anything keeps DBAs up at night it’s database security – especially with recent revelations of vulnerabilities like the POODLE SSLv3 security flaw (CVE-2014-3566) and “Bash Bug,” also known as Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271). Attendees will have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with database security expert David Busby of Percona, who will also lead a session titled, “Security it’s more than just your database you should worry about.”

The official Percona Live London 2014 t-shirt!
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Observe how to incorporate semi-synchronous replication to achieve failover – without data loss. Facebook’s Yoshinori Matsunobu and Santosh Banda will share how they did it at scale (across data centers) by extending MySQL internals along with some handy new self-made tools.

Meet the next-generation C connector for MySQL: libAttachSQL. It’s a new lightweight async C connector library for MySQL being developed from scratch by HP’s Advanced Technology Group. Andrew Hutchings, principal software engineer at Hewlett-Packard, will be on hand to share the latest on libAttachSQL.

Successful applications often become limited by MySQL performance. But tracking down and fixing those issues can be a huge drain on time and resources. Unless you think smart – spending time on what gives you the best return. Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev will explain how in his session, “Practical MySQL Performance Optimization.”

Percona Live London attendees will also learn from the real-life experiences of MySQL experts who share case studies. Shake hands with Art van Scheppingen, head of database engineering at Spil Games, who will explain how to serve out any page with an HA Sphinx environment.

Save yourself a quarter century by absorbing Tim Callaghan’s MySQL performance benchmarking tips, tricks and lessons learned. Tim, vice president of engineering at Tokutek, with share what he’s learned in the past 25 years maintaining the performance of database applications.

And of course there will be a MySQL community dinner! But be sure to register now for the dinner because space is limited – especially if you want to enjoy a ride to the restaurant on a vintage double-decker London bus (you do not need to attend the conference to join the dinner).

Register now for Percona Live London 2014 and save £30 with discount code “MPB30“. See you in London!

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Percona Live London 2014 is fast approaching – November is just around the corner. This year’s conference, November 3-4, will be even bigger and better than last year thanks to the participation of leading MySQL experts the world over (including you!).

The Percona Live London MySQL Conference is a great event for users of any level using any of the major MySQL branches: MySQL, MariaDB or Percona Server. And this year we once again host a star-studded group of keynote speakers from industry-leading companies in the MySQL space.

We’ll also be welcoming leading MySQL practitioners from across the industry (and from all corners of the world) who will speak on topics that matter to you now  – see the full conference schedule here:

• Tutorial Schedule
• Breakout Session Schedule

Monday starts early with a full day of tutorials and a fun evening at the community dinner.  Attendees will be arriving in true London style on a double-decker bus! Tuesday morning will kick-off with a series of keynotes followed by interactive breakout sessions – wrapping things up at the end of the day with a fun post-conference reception (a great chance to make new friends and reconnect with old ones).

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the must-see events this year:

• Oracle’s Tomas Ulin will speak on “MySQL: It Just Keeps Getting Better”
• Facebook’s Shlomo Priymak will explain “MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale”
• I’ll update everyone on the “Ever Evolving MySQL Landscape
• Booking.com’s Jean-François Gagné will discuss “High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Extreme Read Scaling using Binlog Servers”
• Continuent’s Robert Hodges will talk about how “MySQL Comes of Age”
• Codership’s Alexey Yurchenko will make a “Synchronous Revelation”
• Tim Callaghan of Tokutek will share “Performance Bechmarking: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned”
• Baron Schwartz of VividCortex will layout a blueprint for “Building a Time-Series Database on MySQL”
• OlinData’s Walter Heck will walk you through “Moving a MySQL infrastructure with 130k QPS to Galera”

To recap, here are the Top Ten reasons to attend Percona Live London this November 3-4:

10. Advanced Rate Pricing ends October 5^th
9. Hear about the hottest current topics and trends.
8. Network! Meet face-to-face in the “hallway track” and make lasting connections.
7. Learn how to make MySQL work better for you – regardless of your expertise.
6. Have a blast at the community dinner!
5. Discuss your unique challenges with experts and discover options for solving them.
4. Engage with the sponsors at their tabletop exhibits.
3. Listen to top industry leaders describe the future of the MySQL ecosystem
2. Learn what works, and what doesn’t, from leading companies using MySQL
1. And the Number 1 reason to attend Percona Live London 2014: ALL of the above!

I look forward to seeing you in London this November and don’t forgot that Advanced Rate Pricing pricing ends October 5 so be sure to register now!

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