Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo event page, and Baron's announcement of the conference. Dates to keep in mind: September 1st - call for speakers opens November 1st - call for speakers closes Tuesday April 10th - Thursday April 12th This week we interview Doron Levari, CEO and co-founder of ScaleBase. ScaleBase transparently scales your … [Read more...]

This week we speak with Calvin Sun, the Development Manager of the InnoDB Team, and has been working on InnoDB at MySQL and Oracle for 5 years. He mentions that not only is the InnoDB team hiring, but nobody has left the InnoDB team in several years, so the team is very stable. We grabbed Calvin at OSCon Data, where Oracle announced the new … [Read more...]

At this year's Open Source Bridge in Portland last month, Eric Redmond presented 'A Dozen Databases in 45 minutes'. It’s really about 20 minutes of theory and 25 minutes of the dozen databases, so for this first of a 2-part series, we present the theoretical side of things. ACID - atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability BASE- basically … [Read more...]

Strata (Big Data Conference) - Sept 19-23 in NYC http://strataconf.com/stratany2011 - the call for proposals is still open until July 15th. OSCon, the Open Source Convention, is Jul 25 - Thu Jul 29th Co-located this year: OSCon Data OSCon Java OSCon Data content mentioned: Hadoop Cassandra read more … [Read more...]

This week we post the audio from the closing keynote of Percona Live by Harrison Fisk of Facebook, "MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future". There is no ear candy this week. … [Read more...]