Peter Zaitsev is a world famous expert in MySQL performance optimization and scaling. Before co-founding Percona, He worked for MySQL AB as head of High Performance Group. He was involved in support, consulting, development and working with vendors helping to optimize their software or hardware to perform well with MySQL. Peter is the co-author of High Performance MySQL, an O'Reilly publication ... more about Peter at http://www.percona.com/team/peter-zaitsev.html