Speaking at the 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference

This year, I have the pleasure of returning to the MySQL Conference & Expo as a speaker. Percona have picked up the torch that O’Reilly had held as the conference organizers, and they’re putting together a 3-day conference this year. I am co-presenting a tutorial with Yves Trudeau from Percona.

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Now available: Slides from Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe

The slides from last week’s talks I (co-)presented at Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe are now available from our web site.

• In my tutorial MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker, I gave a fast walk-through of Pacemaker high availability for MySQL. Tutorial presented at Percona Live UK 2011 in London, England.
• In Fencing and Maintaining Sanity in High Availability Clusters, Madison Kelly and I explored the importance of fencing in HA clusters, highlighted important considerations for fencing, and shared technical details and best practices. Talk presented at Linuxcon Europe 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

All slides are available entirely free of charge for logged-in users on our web site. To log in, you don’t even need to register — just use your Google Profile, or Google Apps account, or your WordPress account, or anything else that uses OpenID, and you’ll be good to go.

Comments on our slides are, of course, always highly appreciated.

Ready to roll for Percona Live UK

All slides are done, all virtual images are completed and we’re ready to roll for tomorrow’s MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker tutorial at Percona Live UK 2011.

This is probably your very last chance to register for PLUK as there are only a handful of tickets left. You can still use my discount code, HaasPLUK11. See you tomorrow!

Busy weeks ahead!

I’m speaking at Percona Live, LinuxCon Europe, and linux.conf.au. And I just co-founded a new company.

Speaking at Percona Live — and you can get there for cheap!

Following my departure from Linbit, I’m honored to be serving a number of speaking requests at conferences over the next few months.

The first I am pleased to announce is my commitment to speak at Percona Live in London this October. The conference venue is the America Square Conference Centre not too far from the iconic Tower of London. My 3-hour tutorial MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch The Pacemaker! is scheduled for Monday, October 24th at 1pm.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you the simplest, quickest and easiest way to set up MySQL high availability in Pacemaker clusters — once you understand the concept, you’ll be able to pull this sort of thing off in under an hour.

What’s cool is that Percona provide tutorial speakers with discount codes for registration, which we can freely share. Thus, if you register for Percona Live using the discount code HaasPLUK11, you get £40 off the Conference+Tutorials ticket — and if you do so before September 19, you save an additional £135 with Early Bird Registration. This discount is valid regardless of whether you actually come to my tutorial or choose a concurrently scheduled one — so even if my tut is not for you, I can still help you get into the conference cheaper!

I’m thrilled to be doing this and can’t wait to see a bunch of familiar faces in London. And I’d be thrilled so see you!