As usual, you can find the slides from PLUK 2013 and FOSDEM 2014 on [Plus].
You have just to access to the slides page and free up some time to discover and read all the referenced content.

Remember the programs of these fantastic events :

• PLUK 2013 : https://www.percona.com/live/london-2013/program/schedule/sessions
• FOSDEM 2014 : https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/mysql/

Now, I’ve just discovered that many slides are missing for PLUK 2013 on the perconalive website.

For latecomers, it’s still time to upload your slides from your dedicated speaker page.
Please, do it quickly, the …

Twitter’s Calvin Sun

Twitter’s Calvin Sun (@Calvinsun2012) is looking forward to the fast-approaching Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this April 1-4 in Santa Clara, Calif. He’ll be speaking, yes, but he’s also looking forward to learning from his peers – particularly those at Facebook. Both companies, he explained, are in the rather unique positions of unprecedented rapid growth and ever-expanding performance demands.

Calvin is a senior engineering manager at Twitter, where he manages MySQL development. Prior to that, he managed the InnoDB team at Oracle. Calvin also worked for MySQL Inc. from 2006 to 2008, managing MySQL storage engines development. He has over 15+ years of database development experience.

He said MySQL is the data storage technology behind …

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is just two months away. I’m very excited about this year’s event which continues our tradition of open technical discussions and inviting all parties to the table.

We have a great amount of technical talks from Oracle – I’m especially excited about future-focused talks shedding some light about what to expect in MySQL 5.7 and beyond. This content is best covered by developers actually designing the system and writing the code. We also have great coverage of MySQL alternatives from Percona and MariaDB. You can view the entire program here.

It is great to see well-rounded coverage of many …

I’m very pleased to announce that the breakout session and tutorial schedules for the third annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 are now online. The conference will be at The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, April 1-4, 2014. I wish to personally thank our dedicated Conference Committee members who put in many hours evaluating hundreds of submissions in order to create these schedules.

Breakout Session Schedule

We have a strong and diverse schedule of breakout sessions which will take place April 2-4, following each morning’s keynote addresses. The speaker list includes top MySQL practitioners from …

Percona founder and CEO Peter Zaitsev delivers the opening keynote at Percona Live 2013 in Santa Clara, Calif.

MySQL gurus from Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp (and more) have submitted papers and will speak at the third annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 in sunny Santa Clara, California this coming April 1-4.

If you attended last April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo – and/or last month’s Percona Live London 2013 conference – then you understand the value of learning from some of the world’s best and brightest system architects and developers. So you might want to consider registering now and take advantage of …

The MySQL community came together last month for two days of outstanding technical tutorials and sessions at Percona Live London. And now many of those MySQL presentations are available for free download.

This year’s London conference saw a 20 percent spike in attendance compared with last year, with MySQL professionals from 31 countries gathering in the U.K. capital for compelling keynotes (including Oracle’s Tomas Ulin and Percona’s Peter Zaitsev) along with in-depth tutorials and insightful breakout sessions.

And as a “thank you” for your continuing support of the Percona Live series of conferences, we’re also offering an additional $25 off registration for April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 (April 1-4 at the Hyatt Regency Santa …

Thanks to everyone who participated in Percona Live London 2013. We had a great event with nearly 20% higher attendance versus 2012. This year’s conference featured participation by representatives from Oracle including a compelling keynote by Tomas Ulin. The conference featured 10 tutorial sessions on Monday and 4 keynotes and 30 breakout sessions on Tuesday.

I personally found the keynotes highly interesting. Peter Zaitsev of Percona discussed the changing face …

Attending Percona Live in London next week?

Don’t miss the chance to hear Tokutek’s Vice President of Engineering, Tim Callaghan, discuss how to use your MySQL knowledge to become an instant MongoDB Guru and the advantages of using Fractal Tree® indexes in MySQL and MongoDB. Tim will be speaking about these topics in two separate sessions at 12:00pm and 5:00pm on November 12.

For more information on these sessions and Percona Live-London, visit https://www.percona.com/live/london-2013/users/tim-callaghan.

Percona Live London 2013 is almost here: November 11-12 2013. Team MariaDB & SkySQL will be present, and here’s an agenda if you’re interested in all things MariaDB:

1. Monday, 11.11.2013 – 2-5pm – What’s New in MariaDB 10 and MariaDB Tools – a tutorial from Ivan Zoratti. This is a hands-on lab, complete with virtual machines provided by Ivan. You’ll also get to see MariaDB Manager from the abstract.
2. Tuesday 12.11.2013 – 9.45-10.00am – What’s New in MariaDB 5.5 and what will happen with MariaDB 10.0 – a keynote from Michael “Monty” Widenius of the …

Dear Community,

it is my pleasure to announce that there will be a community dinner on the evening of Monday the 11th of November in London coinciding with the Percona Live Conference. In the same spirit as the community dinner in Santa Clara, the event will be `pay your own way` so it's important to bring some cash on the evening so that splitting the bill is as painless as possible.

The venue is Masala Zone in Earl's Court, which is a short walk from the Millenium Gloucester. For anyone that would like to walk over we will meet in the foyer of the hotel at ~7pm and walk over. 

Please make your way over to our eventbrite page to register your attendance so that we can give the guys at Masala Zone good notice of how many to expect.

The link above will take you to the Masala Zone site …