Tag: Events

For the month of October, Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Laerte Junior will be touring Brazil and Europe for various SQL Server-related speaking engagements. “Thankfully, I am working at a company that fully supports their employees to speak and participate in community…

Who: Hosted by Blackbird, with a speaking session by Alex Morrise, Chief Data Scientist at Pythian. What: TechTalk presentation, beer, wine, snacks and Q&A Where: Blackbird HQ – 712 Tehama Street (corner of 8th and Tehama) San Francisco, CA When:…

Today is our day. July 25, 2014 marks the 15th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this day we pause and take a moment to forget the impossible tasks, nonexistent budgets, and often unrealistic timelines to say thank you to those…

Last week I was at the 2014 Hadoop Summit in San Jose, trying to keep abreast of the ever-changing Apache landscape: what projects are up-and-coming, what projects are ready for production, and most importantly which projects can solve problems for…

The landscape of the systems administration field is shifting. As the trend continues towards Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and other *aaS offerings, the traditional role of systems administration is being challenged. While this traditional model will remain (well beyond its…

IOUG’s Collaborate 14, is star-studded this year with the Pythian team illuminating various tracks in the presentation rooms. It’s acting like a magnet in the expo halls of The Venetian for data lovers. It’s a kind of rendezvous for those…

Musings about COLLABORATE, the 9th version of which is happening in Las Vegas USA from April 7-11 2014.

Pythian organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: The MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members as many of you will be in town for the MySQL Conference that week. Here are the details..

This year COLLABORATE 14 is being held at The Venetian and Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, April 7-11. Some Pythian folks will be attending and speaking at the event, so be sure to watch for their presentations: Session Date…

PalominoDB CEO Laine Campbell presented this class at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, NYC Oct 2013. The class is broken into two videos and is a total of 85 minutes. Click here for Part 1 – Click here for Part 2…