Black coffee was flowing this morning for day two Percona Live Europe 2017 Keynotes after many of the delegates had spent a good few hours the night before enjoying Irish hospitality at the Community Dinner.

So today Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Officer for Percona, introduced proceedings for day two and later also took to the stage for a Q&A session with authors Laine Campbell and Charity Majors. More on that later…

State of the Dolphin

WATCH: Geir Høydalsvik, Development Director for MySQL at Oracle, delivers his keynote “State of the Dolphin”

First up Geir Høydalsvik, Development Director for MySQL at Oracle, delivered juicy tidbits of what to expect in MySQL 8.0 (beyond what you see in the current Developer Milestone Releases). …

After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

Laurie then introduced Peter Zaitsev, CEO of …

After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Note. These videos are as shot, and the slides will be superimposed very soon so you can enjoy the full conference experience!

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 on September 26, 2017.

Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 introduces basic support for the MyRocks storage engine. There is a special dashboard in Metrics Monitor that presents the essential metrics of MyRocks as separate graphs. Also, Metrics Monitor graphs now feature on-demand descriptions that remain visible as long as hover over them.

For example, this graph helps you visualize MyRocks database operations of Next and Seek attributes:

There are many improvements to QAN (Query Analytics) both in the user interface design and in …

Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017: Tutorials day! Technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open source tools and technologies.

Today attendees went to training sessions taught by open source database experts and got first-hand experience configuring, working with, and experimenting with various open source technologies and software.

The first full day (which includes opening keynote speakers and breakout sessions) starts Tuesday 9/26 at 9:15 am.

Some of the tutorial topics covered today were:

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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe Dublin

Are you affected by the Ryanair flight cancellations? Have you made alternative arrangements? Have you registered for the community dinner? Even speakers have to register, so this is a separate ticket cost! There will be fun lightning talks in addition to food and drink.

You are, of course, already registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin, …

Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Alexey Kopytov, sofware developer and maintainer of sysbench. His talk is Modern sysbench: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks. His presentation present new features provided by recent releases and explain how they can be used to create complex benchmark scenarios and collect performance metrics with a simple Lua API. It will also run a live demo of some of …

Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Dana Van Aken, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her talk is titled Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-Scale Machine Learning. DBMSs are difficult to manage because they have hundreds of configuration “knobs” that control factors such as the amount of memory to use for …

On Sunday I will travel over to Dublin for Percona Live 2017.

I have two sessions, a keynote on the Wednesday morning where I’ll be talking about all the fun new stuff we have planned at Continuent and some new directions we’re working on.

I also have a more detailed session on our new appliers for Kafka, Elasticsearch and Cassandra, that’s Tuesday morning.

If you haven’t already booked to come along, feel free to use the discount code SeeMeSpeakPLE17 which will get you 15% off!

Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Charity Majors, CEO/Cofounder of Honeycomb. Her talk is Debugging with Logs (and Other Events). Her presentation covers some of the lessons every engineer should know (and often learns the hard way): why good logging solutions are so expensive, why treating your logs as strings can be costly and dangerous, how logs can impact code …