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I think financial organization web sites are often the most annoying on a web. They are often slow and have extremely poor usability. One thing which amuses me a lot is the user name and password policies.    Some would allow … Continue reading →

So health care costs in US grow faster than Income and Economy.   It surely can be partially blamed to how inefficient and high overhead the system is but I think fundomental reason is different.   Medicine has to offer a lot … Continue reading →

One of the core values I had for Percona is providing indepentent/bias free services for the customers focusing on just their needs and benefits and avoiding the things which would stop this from happening.  As I was thinking about this … Continue reading →

The Parcell Tax initiative has failed  here in Pleasanton which means a lot of staff and program cuts from the Schools, which is something this area is proud of. To partially offset the problem there is a fund drive.    For … Continue reading →

What is getting annoying during last few years is the Co-Installations a lot of (typically free) software uses.    I’m am in particulary annoyed when it is opt-out instllation so if you just click through in default install you get software … Continue reading →

Back in Russia we saw little difference in the expenses and spending the  cash in personal finance.  Life was simple you buy something and you have expense – same thing.   It was very interesting for me to learn in my … Continue reading →

I recently got a review for our “High Performance MySQL” book which was saying “What makes this book so much better than any others I’ve seen in the last 8 years is its focus on the why, rather than the … Continue reading →

I heard Obama on the news today about closing tax loopholes for international taxes, which make me thinking about taxes in general in the modern world.  I work in the industry where location does not matter as much any more … Continue reading →

At Percona a lot of vision aspects come from what we as a founders and later as a team consider good from the position of the other party.  With Employees/Consultant – the question is what would  I value working for … Continue reading →

A year ago I’ve been discussing with some people how unsafe and unsecure is working with small companies like Percona – which are small and bootstrapped, having no venture capital to relay on.     The comparison was obviously MySQL which just … Continue reading →