Hands On Trove: Database as a Service in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 27 March 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, OpenStack

This tutorial covered OpenStack Trove at Percona Live 2014. If you want to recreate the experience, read on!


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linux.conf.au 2014, or My Annual Journey To Awesome

Posted on Mon 20 January 2014 in blog • Tagged with linux.conf.au, OpenStack

Earlier this month, I got on a flight to Perth, WA to make my annual trek to linux.conf.au, the largest open-source conference in the Southern Hemisphere and one of my favorite conferences on the circuit. LCA is an excellent, volunteer-run, hugely insightful conference and well worth the 26-hour …


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Greetings from Havana: A fresh perspective on globally distributed OpenStack

Posted on Tue 10 December 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack

My second appearance at OpenStack Israel, this time with news on distributed OpenStack environments in the Havana release.


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More Reliable, More Resilient, More Redundant

Posted on Wed 17 April 2013 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack

Another update on OpenStack's progress in high availability, for the Grizzly and Havana releases. Presented at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, on April 17, 2013.


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High Availability Update: You can now vote our talk into the OpenStack summit!

Posted on Thu 21 February 2013 in blog • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack

For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here's how you can make sure it makes it into the program.

Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended overview …


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