Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Apr 30, 2012
Pythian is excited to announce that Heidi Hauver, Pythian’s Director, HR, has been named as one of the recipients of the Ottawa Business Journal’s prestigious Forty Under 40 Award!
The annual awards program recognizes accomplished industry leaders who are under the age of 40. The awards are co-hosted by Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. The judges collectively spent approximately 100 hours reviewing and ranking each of the submissions, which were assessed using a 40-point system: 20 points for business achievement, 10 points for expertise and 10 points for community involvement.
A BIG congratulations from all of us, Heidi!
Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Mar 30, 2012
It’s that time of the year again…. Collaborate time: the world’s only user-driven, user-run Oracle conference. From April 22 to 26th, thousands of Oracle professionals are heading to Las Vegas for a week’s worth of presentations, education sessions, networking opportunities and who knows what else (it’s Vegas, after all!).
Here is what we have planned for Collaborate 12:
Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Mar 20, 2012
Very soon, Pythian will be participating in the Percona MySQL Conference taking place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, April 10-12, 2012. We are proud to be presenting along side by so many other respected MySQL practitioners in the industry.
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Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Mar 9, 2012
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:
What: The MySQL community pay-your-own-way dinner
When: Tuesday, April 1oth – Meet us at 6:30 pm on Tuesday in the lobby of the Hyatt Santa Clara, or at 7 pm at Pedro’s (you are welcome to show up later too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
How: Comment on this blog post to add your name to the list of probable attendees
Pedro’s can handle large groups of people, but we would like to have a vague idea of how many people are attending to give Pedro’s and accurate number of attendees so that they can be adequately prepared.
So, if you would like to join us, just leave a comment on this blog post and I’ll add you to the list of attendees:
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Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Feb 22, 2012
Pythian continues its streak of events and speaking engagements in 2012 with HOTSOS 2012 on March 4-8, 2012, at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, TX. HOTSOS is the most important conference dedicated to Oracle system performance and we are honoured to have two great speakers representing us there. Alex Gorbachev and Gwen Shapira‘s abstracts are listed below and a full list of conference abstracts is available on the HOTSOS site here.
| Session Title |
Speaker |
Abstract |
| Benchmarking Oracle Performance with ORION |
Alex Gorbachev |
Every time Alex demonstrates charts he produces during IO benchmarks with ORION tool (Oracle I/O Numbers), he hears “Wow! How do you create these?” In this presentation, Alex will provide practical tips and tricks on how to benchmark your storage subsystem and capacity, how to stress test it, and determine the limits. You will learn how easy it is to setup ORION benchmark and collect I/O performance characteristics of your platform and assess scalability of small random IOs, impact of writes on I/Operformance, impact of different RAID levels, how backups can affect your OTLP traffic, performance of outer areas of disks vs inner areas, compare SSD with HDD performance, and etc. Because ORION test scenarios are very repeatable, it’s a great measuring tool in your Measure, Analyze, Change, Measure cycle. |
| Queues, Pools, and Caches: The Right Way to Scale OLTP |
Gwen Shapira |
Transaction processing systems are generally considered easier to scale than data warehouses. Relational databases were designed for this type of workload, and there are no esoteric hardware requirements. Mostly, it is just matter of normalizing to the right degree and getting the indexes right. The major challenge in these systems is their extreme concurrency, which means that small temporary slowdowns can escalate to major issues very quickly. In this presentation, Gwen Shapira will explain how application developers and DBAs can work together to built a scalable and stable OLTP system – using application queues, connection pools and strategic use of caches in different layers of the system. |
If you happened to miss us at a past event, email events@pythian.com and we will be happy to give you a copy of the any of the presentations we’ve made through throughout the year.
Posted by Maryanne Birksted on Jan 25, 2012
Pythian is very excited to return to the much-awaited RMOUG 12 held in Denver, Colorado from February 14-16, 2012. Keep your eyes open for Alex Gorbachev, Marc Fielding, Don Seiler and Gwen Shapira in attendance. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers this year featuring a total of seven papers presented by Alex, Marc, Don and Gwen. If you have any feedback on our sessions, please send your comments directly to the speaker or to Vanessa Simmons, Pythian Director of Marketing. Please also follow this link to sign up to receive notice of future speaking engagements, webinars or Pythian news.
Be sure to stop by our booth (#3,6,7,10) to say hello to our friends from the OakTable Network, and enter our draw to win the new Amazon Kindle with software provided by Cary Millsap (MR-Trace, MR-Tools & Method-R Profiler) and a pack of digital e-book downloads courtesy of Apress. Also slated is the RAC Attack workshop, which was first offered at Oracle Open World and UKOUG, and is now in its second year at RMOUG. Pythian is co-sponsoring this event with Apress and it’s a fun and informative way to learn from our experts how and when to properly build a RAC environment.
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