Well, where to begin.

2013 has been a year of change for myself, after a long consideration period spanning several months in 2012 I felt that it was time to move on from Psycle Interactive as their Systems Administrator; the new roles “on the table” were as follows:

• Percona - Systems Admin role which later became a Remote DBA role
• Rackspace - Systems Admin
• Google - Systems engineer
• Facebook - Systems engineer

I accepted the offer from Percona becoming part of the Remote DBA team; the growth over the last 8 months has in my opinion been very rapid; the team and client list has more than doubled in size.

So some highlights on what I have been up to this year (well what I can talk about at least).

• Adventures in archiving - A case review exploring the use of the MySQL archive engine vs other available compression formats.
• Percona Live 2013 Committee member
• Submitted talks to OSCON - unfortunately they did not make the schedule this year.
• Security talk at Percona Live 2013 - just to be clear committee members can not review their own submissions; thus this talk was reviewed as any other submission (minus one casting vote).
• Work on flashcache RPMs for el6, Fedora
• Wrote replacement cluster check service in python - this is now included in Percona XtraDB Cluster.
• Technical reviewer for Scratch Cookbook

There’s so much more which I can not talk about with it being IP / NDA related.

Expect more security focused posts soon as I work on their content.