Ewen Fortune

Ewen Fortune
Consultant, Percona

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Ewen Fortune is a MySQL performance expert at Percona, a consulting firm that helps customers build high-performance applications with MySQL. He has many years of experience with not only MySQL, but also other databases, enterprise-level networking, and SUN Solaris.

Sessions

2:00pm–2:45pm Thursday, 04/23/2009
InnoDB Performance and Usability Patches
Performance Tuning and Benchmarks, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom H Level: Intermediate
Vadim Tkachenko (Percona Inc), Ewen Fortune (Percona)
InnoDB is well-known and popular, but naturally there's room for improvement. There are many hard-coded constants – what happens if we turn them into command-line parameters? InnoDB is also incredibly complex, with a lot going on under the covers. What algorithms can we change to make InnoDB faster and more scalable, especially on modern hardware? Read more.

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