Today we are announcing Venu Anuganti as a guest speaker to Percona Live: San Francisco.

Venu works as a Data architect, evaluating and implementing high performance SQL/NoSQL data store solutions for large scale OLTP and OLAP infrastructure; and previously worked as a database kernel engineer at companies like SolidDB, MySQL, ANTs Data Server and Yahoo!

Venu will be presenting on the “Role of MySQL in Analytics, Warehouse and Large Data At Scale”, where he will share some of his latest research.  We have Venu to thank for the SHOW TEMPORARY TABLES feature which has made its way into to Percona Server, and for detailed investigative blog posts such as …

Mark Callaghan has graciously accepted to be the closing keynote speaker for Percona Live: San Francisco!

Mark is best known for his work behind MySQL @ Facebook, where he and his team maintain one of the largest MySQL installations around.  They also contribute back to the community with a publicly available branch of enhancements, improved diagnostic tools, and bug reports which help make MySQL better.

Mark’s keynote will be on “High-value Transaction Processing”.  I assure you, this is a presentation not to be missed.

Today we're announcing Percona Live - a one day event to be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco.  Live is our way of showcasing some of the awesome work that has been going into MySQL recently - and the theme of this event is Beyond MySQL 5.1.

Our first guest speaker is none other than Jeremy Zawodny.  Jeremy is well known in the MySQL community having been the original author of High Performance MySQL 1st Ed.  He will be presenting on how Craigslist has already upgraded to MySQL 5.5 - and are running on Fusion-io SSDs in production.

Tickets are available for early bird registration at $50.  To signup, or for more information please visit the percona website.

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