For our June meetup, we are happy to announce that Ryan Lowe from Percona will be discussing Maatkit. Maatkit is a set of tools that helps MySQL users and administrators fill otherwise unmet needs. The toolkit is absolutely packed with functionality. This session will teach you how to get your daily work done faster, safer and smarter.

Ryan is a Senior Consultant and North American Consulting Coordinator at Percona, a firm that helps customers build high- performance applications with open-source software stacks such as LAMP. Before joining Percona, Ryan was the DBA Manager at a top-1000 website. Ryan's specialties are application-performance and security.