Author: Derek Downey

  The Percona Live Data Europe Conference in Amsterdam is being held October 3-5, 2016. It is quickly approaching, and Pythian is excited to show you how we Love Your Data in a big way! We have an awesome lineup of speakers this year:…

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, gives you the steps to setup and deploy a local sandbox Cluster as well as the steps to kill a node.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, explains how to protect against the MySQL bug CVE-2016-6662.

I recently had the opportunity to test out Ansible’s ability to interact with docker containers. Some might ask why we would want Ansible to connect to running containers. Afterall, we can build the containers to our liking using ansible-container, or…

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, explains how to verify that a Slave is running in MySQL 5.7.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, discusses how to optimize costs with AWS Reserved Instances.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, details some of the industry trends and events that occurred during PerconaLive 2016.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, discusses the updates to MySQL memory usage docs.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, highlights upcoming speakers and events at the 2016 Percona Live Data Performance Conference.

Once again, Pythian is organizing the Annual MySQL Community Dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members since many of you will be in town for Percona Live. Here are the details…