Baron Schwartz

Chief Performance Architect at Percona

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Area
Industry: Computer Software

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Baron Schwartz's Overview

Current

Chief Performance Architect at Percona
Lead Author at High Performance MySQL (book)
Senior Partner at Xaprb LLC

Past

Vice President of Consulting at Percona
Director of Consulting at Percona Inc
Senior Developer at Rimm-Kaufman Group

Programmer III at Crutchfield Corporation

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Education

University of Virginia
Piedmont Virginia Community College

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I'm a software engineer with expertise in database systems. I'm best-known for writing about and contributing to MySQL and InnoDB. I'm the lead author of High Performance MySQL. I have created a handful of successful open-source software projects and a series of conferences that's held worldwide a few times annually.

Specialties

Software architecture and design, analysis and optimization. Building large, scalable, high-performance applications.

Chief Performance Architect

Percona

August 2010 – Present (1 year 10 months)

Lead Author

High Performance MySQL (book)

August 2007 – Present (4 years 10 months)

Senior Partner

Xaprb LLC

January 2006 – Present (6 years 5 months)

Vice President of Consulting

Percona

February 2010 – August 2010 (7 months)

Director of Consulting

Percona Inc

March 2008 – February 2010 (2 years)

Senior Developer

Rimm-Kaufman Group

February 2006 – March 2008 (2 years 2 months)

Programmer III

Crutchfield Corporation

May 2003 – February 2006 (2 years 10 months)

Spanish
French

High Performance MySQL
- O'Reilly
- March 12, 2012
Authors: Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko

High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition is the definitive guide for building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Its authors are noted experts in the field, with years of real-world experience building very large systems. They focus not only on performance, but on robustness, security, and data integrity.
Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time
- O'Reilly
- June 1, 2010
Authors: Baron Schwartz, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins

A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll offer insights into this evolving field.
Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law
- Percona
- November 1, 2010
Authors: Baron Schwartz, Ewen Fortune

Forecasting a system's scalability limitations can help answer questions such as “will my server handle ten times the existing load?” and “at what point will I need to upgrade my hardware?” Timely answers to these questions have more business value than exact predictions. Mathematical models can help reduce guesswork while avoiding the expense and time required for real load testing. Dr. Neil J. Gunther's Universal Scalability Law is such a model. It predicts a system's deviation from ideal scalability, based on simple measurements that are relatively easy to collect. In this paper we show how to model a MySQL database server's scalability, in terms of throughput, for two different servers and workloads.