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Wikipedia is a great resourse for dads of curious kids.   My kid asks a lot of questions and he is interested in a lot of fronteer stuff  like  aero gels, plasma, fusion and space.   In the past times you would … Continue reading →

I’m hearing some people think we at Percona are in unfair competition with Sun/MySQL.   Indeed  Sun and MySQL invest millions in MySQL Development and we just take this result  extend it with few patches and provide our services around it.     … Continue reading →

The modern business is highly confidential.  Companies have the deals which never become public, employee may have special conditions which no one knows about too. This is just life and if you do not respect confidentiality you will have hard … Continue reading →

What if people would treat houses same way as we treat cars – meaning you purchase the car, often taking a loan for a few years.   Quite similar to the morgage,  just different loan amount and length.    The difference comes … Continue reading →

One big challenge in a Virtual Company with people working from all around the world is setting the Salaries. One approach which MySQL used when I worked there and which Zak and Monty propose in their Open Companies idea is … Continue reading →

We recently got Dell R900 box to use as a benchmarks so in addition to looking remotely to a lot of them we could pick an eye inside. Inside it is nicely designed box with everything pluggable.   It has 32 … Continue reading →

There is no winter in Bay Area….  no Winter as in Russia with its snow or Winter with it rain and bare trees as in Seattle or London.    Autumn seems to change just to the spring here.     It is the … Continue reading →

When we look for professional services, being it your plumber accountant or lawyer  we pay special attention to the rates,  and as vendors know it they often would focus on making rates to look low while the fineprint results in … Continue reading →

1st of January – sounds like a good time to start a new blog. This blog is going to be my personal blog,  and I will use it for issues which are not a good fit for  MySQL Performance Blog … Continue reading →