Baron Schwartz
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Baron Schwartz is an American software engineer most notable for his contributions to the MySQL database. He is currently Chief Performance Architect at Percona, Inc.[1] and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Schwartz is the lead author of High Performance MySQL, 2nd ed. (published 2008, O'Reilly).[2] He contributed a chapter to Web Operations (published 2010, O'Reilly).[3]
He created the Maatkit toolkit for MySQL,[4] for which he received MySQL's 2008 MySQL Code Contributor of the Year Award.[5] He has released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under Cacti.[6] He developed and maintains Innotop,[7] an open source interactive monitoring tool for MySQL and InnoDB.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.percona.com/about-us/our-team
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Optimization-Load-balancing/dp/0596101716
- ^ http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136
- ^ http://www.maatkit.org
- ^ http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/community-2008.html
- ^ http://www.xaprb.com/blog/tag/cacti-templates/
- ^ http://code.google.com/p/innotop/
[edit] External links
- Talkin to Baron Sun's George Barton interviews Baron Schwartz
- Author Biography from O'Reilly Media
