I recently attended DevOpsDays Toronto 2017, my first proper DevOpsDaysTO event.  I had the pleasure of attending and being able to immerse myself in this openly collaborative and supportive culture of IT professionals.  The variety of considerations expressed for delivering software features in a rapidly, frequently and reliable release focused manner was really intriguing….but not without its own complexities.… Read More »

In this blog, I intend to present the MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM), and also to present a multi-machine vagrant setup by adding a vagrant-hostmanager plugin to configure the /etc/hosts on the VMs. To start, I begin by installing the hostmanager plugin on my mac where I manage my environments. [crayon-58c2f17573ee8441268854/] OK, so that was easy.… Read More »

Today I start this MySQL blog which will apply a focus on all things MySQL and attempt to bring out their practical usage.  In this particular blog I will give an introduction to MySQL by helping us all get a simple way to test new MySQL features or capabilities through the usage of Vagrant, Virtual Box and then setting… Read More »