Baron Schwartz
CTO at VividCortex
Baron is the CTO and founder of VividCortex, the best way to see what your production database servers are doing. Baron has written a lot of open source software, and several books including High Performance MySQL. He’s focused his career on learning and teaching about scalability, performance, and observability of systems generally (including the view that teams are systems and culture influences their performance), and databases specifically.
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Does EXPLAIN confuse you? You're not alone. This will help you understand what EXPLAIN output means, how to interpret it, what's good/bad in a given EXPLAIN plan, and how to change queries, indexes, or schema to get better query execution plans.
Mar 21 2019
How To Index Your Database
Indexing is simple, approachable, and useful
Do you know what database indexes are and how they work? Do they seem hard to understand? They don't have to be. The basic principles you need to know are simple and easy to remember. And developers need to know the basics of indexing: your DBAs can't save you, because discovering you need an index after you deploy a feature is often too little, too late. This talk will give you the fundamental...
Oct 15 2018