On Thursday, February 10, at 10am PST, there is a free webinar
about Managing Big Data with Percona Server, XtraBackup
and Tungsten. Quoting from the announcement:
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.
The presenters are representatives of both Percona and …
On Sunday I will be in Stuttgart with the double purpose of
attending the annual European PostrgreSQL conference and the
technical meeting of my company that will be held after the normal
proceedings of PGDay-EU.
For the first time in several years I am attending a conference
where I am not a speaker. In my previous job I did not have much
opportunity to attend PostgreSQL meetings, and I welcome this
opportunity. The schedule is quite interesting, and I have made my
personal picks:
- Monday:
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Back to the conference circuit after some rest. On December 1st I will be speaking under my new affiliation at Continuent in the MySQL track at the UKOUG conference. My topic is MySQL - Features for the enterprise and it will basically cover the main features of MySQL 5.5. This conference is the largest Oracle related event in Europe, and it is organized by users for other users. This year for the first time the conference hosts a MySQL dedicated track. It is a sort of epidemic. Most of the … |
JCP election results. Funding for Acquia and Continuent. Fedora 14. And more.
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# The Java Community Process election results are in.
# Acquia closed an $8.5m series C funding round and announced that it has tripled its customer base in 2010.
# Continuent appointed Robert Hodges CEO and confirmed details of $5m funding from Aura Capital.
# Red Hat …
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A few days ago, I left the MySQL team at Oracle, after more than
4 years of work dedicated mostly to the MySQL
community. Someone will probably remember that, when I joined MySQL in 2006, I started my work in the QA team. It was no coincidence. My previous work as a consultant was very much focused on database development quality, even when my customers had approached me for different reasons. Let's be frank. I am a minority. It's not common to find someone who is passionate about QA. I am aware of being a rare bird, who likes testing and bug searching, and doing all the little steps that all together improve the overall quality of a software system. I had been thinking about my passion … |
Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.
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# Google responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java.
# Matt Asay evaluated the various patent claims against Android and its related devices.
# Microsoft licensed smartphone patents from ACCESS Co and a subsidiary of Acacia Research.
# Glyn Moody …
[Read more]VMware and Salesforce.com launch VMforce. Red Hat provides Cloud Access. And more.
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# VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a platform for developing and deploying Java cloud applications.
# Red Hat Cloud Access enables enterprises to use their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription on Amazon Web Services.
# Canonical announced Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition, Desktop Edition and ISV support.
…[Read more]Download Tungsten Enterprise v. 1.2.3 (Release date March 16, 2010) This is a maintenance release that adds the following new features plus a number of important fixes: Completely updated documentation, including expanded description on cluster concepts, management procedures, and connectivity options New features for SaaS vendors include transparent session consistency for
Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS. The UK’s updated OSS strategy. And more.
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Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS
# Oracle’s MySQL strategy slide.
# eWeek reported that database thought leaders are divided on Oracle MySQL.
# Savio Rodrigues and Computerworld on Oracle’s plans for MySQL, other open source assets.
# Zack Urlocker is leaving Oracle/Sun/MySQL.
…[Read more]Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO. Open source at SAP. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Mark Shuttleworth explained why he is stepping down as CEO of Canonical.
# Groklaw published The EU and Microsoft Settle Browser Issue; Interoperability with FOSS Still a Problem. …
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