Ryan Lowe

Ryan Lowe
Consultant, Percona

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Ryan Lowe is a high performance consultant for Percona, where he advises clients on performance and scaleability best practices for a variety of application architectures. In his free time, he likes to blog, play with agent-based simulation models and travel the world.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 04/11/2011
Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems
Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom D
Tags: performance, security, architecture, technology, database_administration, benchmarking
Justin Swanhart (Percona), Ryan Lowe (Percona), Baron Schwartz (VividCortex Inc)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 8 ratings)
This tutorial focuses on the diagnostic tools you can turn to when confronted with an unexplained performance problem. Tools explained include iostat, vmstat, and mk-query-digest. The emphasis is on practical usage under pressure, and less on performance theory. Read more.
11:55am Wednesday, 04/13/2011
Achieving PCI Compliance with MySQL
Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: dba, security
Fernando Ipar (Percona), Ryan Lowe (Percona)
Average rating: **...
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Achieving PCI compliance can be a difficult and expensive process. This session will begin by clarifying which requirements affect MySQL and then step through each requirement, providing common solutions to satisfy them. Read more.
2:50pm Thursday, 04/14/2011
Summary Tables, Aggregate Tables and Materialized Views Using Flexviews
Architecture and Technology, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, PHP and MySQL, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom D
Justin Swanhart (Percona), Ryan Lowe (Percona)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
This talk describes using summary tables to improve application performance. It focuses on Flexviews, an open source toolkit based on MySQL stored procedures. Flexviews maintains summary tables and supports joins and aggregation. I'll show at a high level how Flexviews works and how it can be used to improve application performance. Examples will be provided for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. Read more.
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Clustrix
  • Continuent
  • Facebook
  • HTI Consultoria e Tecnologia
  • Monty Program
  • Percona
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SkySQL
  • Xeround

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