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Speaking at the Southern Computer Measurement Group meeting on Thursday

Xaprb — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:05:38 +0000

I’ll be presenting at the Southern Computer Measurement Group’s meeting on Thursday. I’ll discuss how to extract scalability and performance metrics from TCP/IP packet headers. Registration is inexpensive, but it’s even less if you register by Monday. There is a full schedule of other good talks — it is an all-day meeting.

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Want to hack Maatkit and Aspersa? We’re hiring

Xaprb — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:38:54 +0000

As announced on the Maatkit and Aspersa mailing lists, Daniel and I have created a new toolkit that represents the union of the two, and will be focusing efforts on this Percona Toolkit moving forward. The goal is to make them simpler and significantly more powerful, and to create more tools. The tools will continue to be open-source, but will be developed primarily to meet our MySQL support and consulting staff’s needs.

If you’re interested in challenging software engineering in Perl and shell, then please apply online. You can work online from anywhere, but I strongly prefer someone in the Americas timezones.

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I’ll be presenting at Postgres Open 2011

Xaprb — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:04:03 +0000

I’ve been accepted to present at the brand-new and very exciting Postgres Open 2011 about system scaling, TCP traffic, and mathematical modeling. I’m really looking forward to it — it will be my first PostgreSQL conference in a couple of years! See you there. Further Reading:Postgres folks, consider the 2011 MySQL conference Well done, Postgres [...] Further Reading:

Planned change in Maatkit & Aspersa development

Xaprb — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:26:08 +0000

I’ve just sent an email to the Maatkit discussion list to announce a planned change to how Maatkit (and Aspersa) are developed. In short, Percona plans to create a Percona Toolkit of MySQL-related utilities, as a fork of Maatkit and Aspersa. I’m very happy about this change, and I welcome your responses to that thread on the discussion list.

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Congrats to New Relic

Xaprb — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:01:05 +0000

New Relic just announced the release of new features that track client-side (front-end) performance, including network time, DOM processing time, and total render time in the browser.

This is really great functionality. If you aren’t using New Relic, you really ought to. It is a web interface to application profiling. It helps you be scientific about performance analysis without knowing it, because the functionality and the user interface make the right thing so obvious you won’t even realize you’re being methodical and focusing on what matters. And it’s got a free introductory level that isn’t crippled. A great product just got greater.

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