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The journey to the Hotel in Santa Clara took me something like 16 hours. It was long, arduous and at times despairing, but was it worth it? Absolutely! I made the epic journey with my Pythian (and former Nokia) colleague Andrew Moore, and once at the conference we met up with more members of our [...]
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The journey to the Hotel in Santa Clara took me something like 16 hours. It was long, arduous and at times despairing, but was it worth it? Absolutely! I made the epic journey with my Pythian (and former Nokia) colleague Andrew Moore, and once at the conference we met up with more members of our [...]
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Day 1 is the fist official day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference; the day began with two mini-keynotes by Peter Zaitev and Baron Schwarz of Percona talking about the history of MySQL and how he got started in the open source movement respectively. Very nostalgic and I’m sure it brought a tear to a [...]
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Day 1 is the fist official day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference; the day began with two mini-keynotes by Peter Zaitev and Baron Schwarz of Percona talking about the history of MySQL and how he got started in the open source movement respectively. Very nostalgic and I’m sure it brought a tear to a [...]
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Day 0 of the MySQL Conference is a day unlike any other day, it is in fact tutorial day. While regular days of the Percona Live MySQL Conference feature 50 minute sessions, usually split into 40 minute talk and a 5-10 minute question period, tutorials are 3 hour long sessions (with a generous 10 minute break in the [...]
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Day 0 of the MySQL Conference is a day unlike any other day, it is in fact tutorial day. While regular days of the Percona Live MySQL Conference feature 50 minute sessions, usually split into 40 minute talk and a 5-10 minute question period, tutorials are 3 hour long sessions (with a generous 10 minute break in the [...]
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Even without attending the Percona Live conference in Santa Clara, you could tell something big was going on.

One way of measuring it was by looking at the flow of announcements. Here's a brief list, and apologies if I've missed anyone:

• Monty Program Announcing MariaDB 5.3. (and later Announcing MariaDB 5.5.23 GA)
• Tokutek Announcing TokuDB v6.0
• Twitter releasing its own MySQL fork
• Oracle announcing so many new features I can't list them all. But they made a TOC for it, and then announced a dozen more, not covered in the TOC.
• Continuent Announcing Tungsten Enterprise 1.5
• Zmanda announcing Recovery Manager 3.4
• And plenty of new partnerships between the major consulting companies

All within the first days of the conference.

What this means, over the surface

I read a post by someone who was ranting about Oracle making so many announcements just as the conference began. He obviously suspected there was no coincidence. I got the impression he was looking at it the wrong way: as if Oracle's announcements came to discourage the relevance of the conference.

I beg the opposite.

Obviously no one is insinuating the timing is coincidental. This does not mean, though, that by announcing new features companies try to undermine the conference. On the contrary: it's part of the celebration. The days of the conference are full of excitement. People are meeting, sharing experiences. It's a great opportunity to throw in a few more goodies and let everyone enjoy themselves.

No new development can make a conference's talk obsolete, as was insinuated by another's post. We all know it takes time for new released to become widespread. So it just adds up to the excitement that we not only have great fun now, but we are expected to enjoy new features to be stable by next year.

What this means, under the hood

To make my point even more interesting, consider that it takes a huge amount of energy to have a release, or a set of features to be released at a specific date. You won't hold out for a stable release for 4 months. You won't rush a premature release by 3 months.

It follows that many companies were planning these releases months ahead. Hold on. they were planning these releases months ahead to match the dates of the Percona Live conference. I don't look at this as undermining the conference: I see this as showing confidence in the conference. The conference will be great, so our announcements will play well!

Even more under the hood

There is really nothing special about it. You see this happening in other conferences as well. LinuxCon is full of announcements. MySQL's case is actually better. While Linuxcon suffers from premature announcements of new patches, with keynotes and sessions describing those patches, patches that are quickly discarded a few months later, we do happen to work with stable projects and products. No one is immune from the forces of economy, but we usually enjoy reliable announcements.

And, an interesting phenomena is created: we get a release cycle.

Everyone is eager to announce something at the conference; so we get to expect releases on the conference. With Oracle throwing another conference this fall, we can expect even more announcements. Not unlike Ubuntu's release cycle - April & October, Tick Tock, Tick Tock, it's time for a release.

For all these I congratulate Percona on a job well done!

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In about 4 hours, at 2PM PDT, I’ll be giving my talk “Security Around MySQL” at Ballroom A at the Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012. It’s a summary and guide of practical and easy-to-implement security tips around MySQL and the application. These tips were all gleamed from my years at start-ups (some which I worked [...]
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A panel on “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” Brian Aker (HP), Paul Mikesell (Clustrix), Sundar Raghavan (Amazon), Slavik Markovich (McAffee), Ori Hernstadt (Akiban) If there’s one common theme to this panel, and indeed, this whole conference, it is “We’re hiring!” It is amazing how much talent there is at the conference this year [...]
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Mark Callaghan of Facebook: “What Comes Next for MySQL” focus on Large, sharded deployments Interesting numbers from their deployment (MySQL with Innodb): 60M QPS and 1.5B rows read/second in production MySQL with InnoDB is “web scale” scaled to 10x more data on the same servers by: Start with MySQL 5.1, flashcache, find and fix stalls, [...]
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