Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany call for papers. It will be open from now until August 10, 2018. The conference takes place November 5–7.

Our theme this year is
Connect. Accelerate. Innovate.

As a speaker at Percona Live Europe, you’ll have the opportunity to CONNECT with your peers—open source database experts and enthusiasts who share your commitment to improving knowledge and exchanging ideas. ACCELERATE your projects and career by presenting at the premier open source database event, a great way to build your personal and company brands. And influence the evolution of the open source software movement by demonstrating how you INNOVATE!

Community initiatives …

I’m just back from a trip in Barcelona where I presented MySQL 8.0 InnoDB Cluster (at dataops and Barcelona MySQL Meetup) and the majority of feedback was great, but I also had some comments on the demos I showed. The first one was:

This is a joke of course (maybe it’s true for some), people found it very easy and they liked it.

But then, the second one was that all I showed wasn’t easy to find, some people who already played with the solution didn’t succeeded in creating a cluster so easily… not because they had errors or encountered bugs, but more because they just didn’t know how to do it.

The goal of this …

Next week I will be speaking at DataOps in Barcelona about MySQL 8.0 Document Store. If you don’t know it yet, I really invite you to join this talk, you will be very surprised about all MysQL can do in the NoSQL world !

There will be also a lot other MySQL related sessions by many good speakers of the MySQL Community.

As I will be in Barcelona, the Barcelona MySQL Meetup invited me to give a session about MySQL InnoDB Cluster and Group Replication and I will also share the stage with my friend and colleague …

From June 16th to 17th, the MySQL Team will be attending and speaking at the Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018.

Unfortunately I won’t be present but some of my great colleagues will be speaking about MySQL.

If you are planning to attend HKOSCon2018, don’t miss their talks:

• Heading to the New Stage of MySQL 8.0 – Ivan Ma
• Crossing Relation and Document Database using …

Today the call for participation for Oracle Open World 2018 has started.

The 2018’s edition will take place in San Francisco as usual, from October 22nd to 25th.

As every year, MySQL will be present and if you want to participate, we encourage you to submit a session. We encourage the submission on the following topics:

• case studies / user stories of your use of MySQL
• lessons learned in running web scale MySQL
• Production DBA/DevOps perspectives into Architecture, Performance, Replication, InnoDB, Security, etc

The call for paper is open until March 22nd, don’t miss the chance to be part …

The conference session schedule for the seventh annual Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA is now live and available for review! Advance Registration Discounts can be purchased through March 4, 2018, 11:30 p.m. PST.

Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 is the premier open source database event. With a theme of “Championing Open Source Databases,” the conference will feature multiple tracks, including MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud, PostgreSQL, Containers and Automation, Monitoring and Ops, and Database Security. Once again, Percona will be …

Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices (available until March 4, 2018). Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available.

Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event. The theme for the upcoming conference is “Championing Open Source Databases,” with a range of topics on …

Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Early Bird registration discounts are available until February 4, 2018, and sponsorship opportunities are still available.

Conference breakout sessions will feature a range of in-depth talks related to each of the key areas. Breakout session examples include:

• Database Security as a Function: Scaling to Your Organization’s Needs – Laine Campbell, …

Happy New Year everybody !

All your wishes should come true with 2018.0 !

As announced previously in this post, this year we will have the second edition of the MySQL Day just before FOSDEM.

All speakers confirmed their talk and I’ve the pleasure to share the announce the schedule !

Percona is extending the Percona Live 2018 call for papers deadline to January 12, 2018!

Percona’s gift to you this holiday season is the gift of time – submit your speaking topics right up until January 12, 2018!

As the year winds up, we received many requests to extend the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 call for papers. Since many speakers wanted to submit during the week that they’re planning vacations (from Christmas until New Year’s Day), we realized that December 22 was too soon.

If you haven’t submitted already, please consider doing so. Speaking at …