{"id":5913,"date":"2013-02-05T09:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T08:12:19","slug":"sessions-of-interest-in-percona-live-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/sessions-of-interest-in-percona-live-2013","title":{"rendered":"Sessions of interest in Percona Live 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/\">Percona Live 2013<\/a> is shortly upon us, and it might be a good idea to watch for what&#8217;s ahead of us.<\/p>\n<h4>Talks of interest<\/h4>\n<p>There is no way I can do justice to all. I wish to point out a <em>small<\/em> number of sessions I am personally interested in attending. I will not be able to attend them all, since there are too many sessions of interest and too few instances of myself (merely one).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to list some talks which are not absolutely obvious (when Peter Zaitsev speaks of MySQL performance, or Monty speaks about MariaDB, or Robert Hodges or Domas speak about replication &#8212; well &#8212; you&#8217;re certain to have the ins and outs, right?). I can also expect Galera or Percona XtraDB Cluster talks to attract a lot of attention. There is a lot of good content for each.<\/p>\n<p>But I was happy to find some very special talks this year, which are not the &#8220;every conference has got to have one talk about this&#8221; type. Here&#8217;s a hybrid collection of both types.<\/p>\n<p>After constructing the list I&#8217;ve intentionally dropped two random sessions. If you are speaking, and not mentioned here, your talk must be one of those two!<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/mysql-and-virtualization\">MySQL and Virtualization<\/a> (Raghavendra Prabhu): I have family ties with KVM. But seriously, a talk which describes the in-depth relationship between KVM and MySQL instances, how to do instrumentation&#8230; I&#8217;m very interested!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/mysql-query-anti-patterns-can-be-moved-sphinx\">MySQL Query Anti-Patterns that can be moved to Sphinx<\/a> (Vladimir Fedorkov): Sphinx can be so much more than just fulltext search. You can throw full blown queries onto your sphinx server, and it can sometimes help you avoid complex table design. I expect this talk to deliver a lot of info about how to do so. As not too many people are intimately familiar with Sphinx, this should be a very good off-your-balance kind of talk when you realize the things you could do with this mature technology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/mysql-cluster-when-use-it-and-when-not\">MySQL Cluster &#8211; When to use it and when not to<\/a> (Max Mether): I don&#8217;t have too much experience with NDB Cluster; and what experience I&#8217;ve had is a few years old. I&#8217;m happy to learn when NDB is just not for you &#8212; I like the idea of setting up the perimeters first, before embarking on a technology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/using-percona-toolkit-detect-and-even-prevent-sql-injection-attacks\">Using the Percona Toolkit to detect and even prevent SQL injection attacks<\/a> (Justin Swanhart): an unusual talk. I&#8217;m totally curios to hear this. Be on the watch for Justin&#8217;s other talks: quite extraordinary abstracts!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/mysql-administration-amazon-rds\">MySQL administration in Amazon RDS<\/a> (Ben Black): How many are using RDS? I used it for a short time, and can&#8217;t say I had chance to utilize its advantages or get bit by its downsides. Next time I use it, I&#8217;d like to be better prepared.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/practical-failover-design-automated-semi-automated-and-manual-failover\">Practical failover design &#8211; automated, semi-automated and manual failover<\/a> (Yoshinori Matsunobu): failover scenarios and solutions &#8212; nothing much to add!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/ricks-rots-rules-thumb\">Rick&#8217;s RoTs (Rules of Thumb)<\/a> (Rick James): good advice on common SQL practice; should be very valuable for developers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/introduction-sharding-jetpants\">Introduction to Sharding with Jetpants<\/a> (Evan Elias): oh I have to see this one. Open source sharding solution? Cloning slaves? Rebalancing shards? Just read the abstract; it is <em>very<\/em> promising.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2013\/sessions\/reddwarf-database-service-openstack-project\">Reddwarf: Database as a Service Openstack project<\/a> (Patrick Galbraith): have to see this one as well! Oh, darn, two &#8220;must see&#8221; talks on same time slot! (I actually have this <em>on every time slot<\/em> this year). Also note Mark Atwood&#8217;s talk about RedDwarf, and Patrick&#8217;s talk about Chef.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will probably construct another list for the more obvious talks. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia: win a free pass<\/h4>\n<p>Glad you made it thus far: the first to answer correctly <em>and<\/em> most comprehensively is to receive a <em>free full conference pass<\/em>, courtesy Percona.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to ask &#8220;what&#8217;s in my pocket?&#8221;. But he answer must be related to MySQL and I don&#8217;t carry RDBMS on me, so I&#8217;ll go with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Who will open your present,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Make you play pleasant,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tidy your mess,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do the same for all else?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be gentle with me, I&#8217;m not a professional riddler and English isn&#8217;t may main language. I&#8217;m not sure if this riddle is ridiculously easy or impractical to answer &#8212; so let&#8217;s consider this as my first attempt as a rhymer.<\/p>\n<p>If you would benefit from a free ticket &#8212; please use the comments below! <strong>Note<\/strong>: <em>comments will be hidden for a few hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you only wish to play for the fun of it (maybe you already have a ticket) &#8211; just email me at <em>shlomi@[you-know-where-or-just-look-at-the-url-for-this-post].org<\/em>; I&#8217;ll let you know if you are correct, and perhaps publish in comments at a later stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percona Live 2013 is shortly upon us, and it might be a good idea to watch for what&#8217;s ahead of us. Talks of interest There is no way I can do justice to all. I wish to point out a small number of sessions I am personally interested in attending. 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