Sponsored Post: Percona Live, AiCache, Next Big Sound, ElasticHosts, Red 5 Studios, Logic Monitor, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring?

• Anybody interested in helping manage a 100+ Linux server deployment? Next Big Sound is a an analytics company for the music industry and is looking someone to help them scale.
• Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication. If interested, please see us here.

Fun and Informative Events

• The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo features 60+ speakers, 72 breakout sessions, and keynotes from HP, Facebook, Box, Eucalyptus Systems, and more. April 10-12 in Santa Clara

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Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, April 10-12

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An optional day of MySQL tutorials is available prior to the conference. Top MySQL experts will offer 16 tutorial sessions covering a range of technical topics. Join the MySQL community at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and the Santa Clara Convention Center for this enriching event. Early Bird pricing is available until March 18. As a special bonus, register before March 1 using promotion code PL-Book and receive Early Bird pricing plus receive a complimentary copy of the upcoming book High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition, a $49.99 value.

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Next Big Sound is Hiring

Anybody interested in helping manage a 100+ Linux server deployment? Next Big Sound is a data aggregation and analytics company for the music industry currently ingesting hundreds of millions of records on a daily basis but as a small engineering team, we're looking for someone to help scale well beyond this to meet our customers' demands. More specifically, we're looking for someone who has practical experience with one or more of Linux / network administration, Java, MySQL, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop (hive/pig/sqoop as well), Chef, Git, and/or PHP.

We currently only have 10 full time people but we're hoping to expand aggressively into the NYC area. If you have any interest or questions, you can email me directly at eric@nextbigsound.com or check out our jobs  page for more information.

Other links: Next Big Sound powers Billboards "Social 50" chart sponsored by American Express. Next Big Sound wins in MIDEM's digital music start-up competition. Next Big Sound makes Billboard's top 10 list of digital music startups. Next Big Sound raises $6.5 million series A.

ElasticHosts Launches across North America

ElasticHosts cloud server hosting launched across North America this month, adding data centers in Los Angeles and Toronto to existing locations in London and San Antonio.

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Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication

In video games, we've got some really tough technical challenges with scalability. The last project I launched, World of Warcraft, had its share of growing pains. This time around, after founding Red 5 Studios, I wanted to do things differently, using open source DB's like MySQL and modern web techniques pioneered at places like 37 signals, Twitter and more.

We're trying to change the game industry once more, but making top quality, AAA games and giving them away for free. We want to compete on fun and innovation instead of marketing and box distribution and sequel-itis. We've also moved away from proprietary hardware and data centers in favor of white box specs and the cloud.

We've been building some really cool tech to do this, and hope to share it with other developers in time. But we need help. We need a database fanatic who wants to try new and daring things, replicating MySQL databases across vast distances, and finding new ways to scale databases by using some of the theory and knowledge found on this very website.

If interested, please see us here: http://www.red5studios.com/2011/11/senior-mysql-dba/. If you'd like to find out more about our game, Firefall, look here: www.firefallthegame.com

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