I just booked my travel arrangements for Percona Live 2023.  In case you missed it, one of the most important MySQL Conference of the year is happening in Denver from Monday May 22 to Wednesday 24.  I will be there and I am giving a talk about how HubSpot operates Percona Server / MySQL with Vitess in Kubernetes.  My colleague, Mali Akmanalp, is also speaking about the tools we

The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, January 22.

Percona Live will be held in Austin, Texas from Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at a new venue, the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center. The CFP is open for submissions from November 27, 2019, through January 13  22, 2020. We invite abstracts covering any and all aspects of open source databases, including on-premise, in the cloud, and across the multi-verse!

Hot Open Source Topics for 2020

All Open Source database themes are welcome, but these are our hot topics for 2020:

• Success in the multi-verse: How to optimize performance, architecture, high-availability, replication, and …

Percona Live is always a great opportunity to learn from the best and brightest in the open-source database community. This time, Percona Live Europe is being held at the Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands from September 30 to October 2, 2019.

Pythian will be present, as has been the case for the past few years, with some of our technical experts speaking on a variety of subjects and technologies.

Feel free to ping any of us during the conference breaks or community events, as we’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about anything open source, cloud, or data-related.

Here are some sessions you won’t want to miss:

Wednesday, October 2

9:00 AM – …

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference, Europe 2019 will have a one week extension of the call for papers.  Our new close date will be Monday July 22, 2019.  Any and all topics related to open source database technologies are invited.

This year’s conference takes a new approach, organizing tracks along these key business themes:

• Performance & Scalability
• Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds & Everything In Between
• Building Large, Scalable, & Secure Database Deployments
• Hot Topics, New Features, & Trends You Should Know About
• Monitor, Manage, & Maintain Databases at Scale
• How to Reduce Costs & Complexity with Open Source Databases
• Fascinating or important talks that don’t 100% …

It was all aboard the Lone Star river boat for the 100 delegates who joined our Community Dinner. Loading took quite some time, Tom Basil attended to the guest list, and then the necessary signatures for those aboard. I’d woken at 6am to a less than favorable forecast, but the weather was kind to us, with blue sky and a gentle breeze.

My colleague and local Austin resident Rick Vasquez had on Tuesday treated me to my first visit to a US liquor store, Specs. This store was bigger than the largest store in my hometown but sold only alcohol-related products and drink-friendly snacks. An experience in itself! We stuck to the brief of Texas-only brew for our guests.

As people boarded they received their swag – PlanetScale and Percona branded steel enamel mugs – and bar and dinner queues formed. The lines moved relatively quickly for the fajita and tex mex themed buffet. …

Feeling the FOMO? Now you don’t have to! With the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 Live Stream, you’ll practically be there in person, living the experience to the fullest. Our keynote stage features morning and lunchtime keynotes on Wednesday, May 29th and morning keynotes on Thursday, May 30th. Join us at home or on the go, from any corner of the world!

Percona is streaming the keynotes on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at 9 AM CDT, Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at 1:25 PM CDT, and Thursday, May 30, 2019, at 9 AM, beginning at 9 AM CDT.

Keynote speakers include Continuent, VividCortex, AWS, Facebook, MariaDB Foundation, and many more. The keynote panel will feature topics such as the changing face of Open Source.

The list of keynote talks and speakers for each day is as follows:

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So, typically, a Percona Live (or MySQL User) Conference blog would start off with some mention of the fact that it’s great to be meeting up again in Santa Clara, California, the birthplace of the MySQL User Conference, and a continuous fixture on the yearly MySQL community agenda.

But no, not this time!

On this occasion, the Percona Live Conference blog starts off by pointing out that for the first time since its inception (as far as I can recollect), the MySQL User Conference, i.e. Percona Live Conference (in North America) doesn’t take place in Santa Clara, but rather in Austin, Texas.

Never having been to Texas before myself, I’m looking forward to that innovation, discovering the new surroundings and seeing whether that changes anything or not to the familiar “feel” of a Percona Live / MySQL User Conference.

By the way, there’s still time to …

Percona Live provides the open source database community with an opportunity to discover and discuss the latest open source trends, technologies, and innovations. The conference includes the best and brightest innovators and influencers in the open source database industry.

This year, Percona Live is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas from May 28-30, 2019.

Pythian is proud to be a Silver Sponsor this year, with a full force of our technical experts speaking on a variety of subjects and technologies. These are sessions you won’t want to miss!

If you’re attending, make sure you swing by our booth and meet the Pythian crew. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about open source, cloud or anything data related. Our speakers will also be covering the event on social media and we’ll recap the event and their talks here on the Pythian …

It’s not long now before we’ll be gathering in Austin TX for this year’s Percona Live event. It’s the only conference of its type dedicated entirely to open source databases – of all marques. From a community perspective, we have a few updates to share.

Community Dinner

We’re happy to say that PlanetScale have stepped up to the plate (!) and are sponsoring this year’s community dinner alongside Percona. This year we are taking to the water and consequently numbers are limited to 100 attendees. If you are keen to join us, be sure to not miss the boat.  😉

The speakers’ perspective

For speakers who also enjoy writing, there’s an …

Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019  – Austin, Texas is on 28-30 May 2019, This is no longer a MySQL only conference and it is a must attend conference for every open source database systems geek who is passionate about building an web-scale database infrastructure operations which is optimal, scalable, highly reliable and secured. This conference provides great opportunity to network, learn and share knowledge with passionate technology professionals from across the globe. I personally track this conference for several years and it is among those few very organized Technology Ops. conferences, This year Percona Live is personally more special to me because I had an opportunity to be on the Percona Live conference committee ( https://www.percona.com/live/19/conference-committee ) and really enjoyed the entire process from kick-off call to …