I was going to visit Charlotte,NC and talk on MySQL Meetup in January but weather did not cooperate. I’m trying again and I hope this time I’m more lucky.
As such I’m speaking on MySQL Meetup in Charlotte,NC 8th of February. If you’re interested
in Scaling applications which use MySQL you will enjoy the talk I’m going to give.
I should thank again Red Ventures LLC for being persistent in making this event happen.

On February 10, We will be giving a webinar “Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup and Tungsten”. This is joint Continuent and Percona Webinar with full description:

Big data is a big problem for growing SaaS businesses and large web applications. In this webinar, we’ll teach you how to set up Percona Server, XtraBackup, and Tungsten to manage Terabyte+ databases and scale to millions of transactions a day. We’ll discuss the latest features for high transaction performance like InnoDB buffer pool dump/restore and HandlerSocket, our favorite tricks for backup, restore, and provisioning of large data sets, and how to replicate scalably and safely using Tungsten Replicator with parallel apply.

Bring your big data questions to this live webcast as we tour the cutting edge of open source data management.

We’re down to less than 25 tickets remaining for Percona Live.  If you are planning on attending, it might be a good idea to purchase your ticket(s) as soon as possible – we are expecting to sell out.

Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia.

Everybody is invited to come to the dinner. Just register on http://mysqlandfriendsfosdem2011.eventbrite.com/ so we have an idea how many reservations we should make. The maximum capacity is about 40 people.

We’ll plan to meet at 19:00 on Saturday, under the big tree in front of the AW building. Then we’ll walk to the restaurant, which is about 5 minutes walking distance.

We’re excited to announce that as well as Percona Live – we will also be holding an evening of Ignite talks on February 16th.

For those not familiar the format, you should check out the Best of Ignite from the MySQL conference last year, as well as Baron’s What is the Difference Between XtraDB and Others? talk.

Here are the key details:

• Same Location as Percona Live (Bently Reserve, San Francisco).
• A ticket to Percona Live also gets you into Ignite Percona.
• Free registration is also available to Ignite Percona (space is limited).
• We are also seeking speakers to …

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 …