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Complimenting the expanded CREATE USER syntax introduced in MySQL Server 5.7.6 is more useful ALTER USER syntax. Before MySQL Server 5.7.6, ALTER USER could only be used to expire a user’s password. That’s pretty limited. With changes made in MySQL Server 5.7.6, a better distinction is made between privilege-level attributes (those which are managed via GRANT and REVOKE statements) and account-level attributes (those managed using CREATE USER and ALTER USER statements).…

We love developer conferences, they are informative, fun and a great way to network with like minded people. The sessions can help you and your organization discuss and address technology challenges, learn how others are solving problems and exchange knowledge. Even if you can’t make it, most of these conferences are streamed online. Here are the 5 DevOp conferences you should consider attending.

AWS re:Invent

The annual cloud conference, by market leaders themselves, is an event which is jam-packed and sold out, months before the actual event. Amazon Web Services (AWS) knows the importance of educating and constantly innovating on the cloud and encourages organizations to migrate their IT infrastructure to embrace the cloud. AWS re:Invent 2015 has a mammoth 313 sessions with 491 speakers. This event should top any DevOp’s list.

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We love developer conferences, they are informative, fun and a great way to network with like minded people. The sessions can help you and your organization discuss and address technology challenges, learn how others are solving problems and exchange knowledge. Even if you can’t make it, most of these conferences are streamed online. Here are the 5 DevOp conferences you should consider attending.

AWS re:Invent

The annual cloud conference, by market leaders themselves, is an event which is jam-packed and sold out, months before the actual event. Amazon Web Services (AWS) knows the importance of educating and constantly innovating on the cloud and encourages organizations to migrate their IT infrastructure to embrace the cloud. AWS re:Invent 2015 has a mammoth 313 sessions with 491 speakers. This event should top any DevOp’s list.

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Any idea how to make work if freeradius is all ready installed?

Next week, all the MariaDB Server developers will descend to Amsterdam for the developer’s meeting. As you know the meeting is open to all interested parties, so we hope to see you in Amsterdam Tuesday Oct 13 – Thursday Oct 15. The schedule is now online as well.

In addition to that, Monday Oct 12 2015, there is also a meetup planned with the MySQL User Group NL. As the organiser Daniël van Eeden wrote, this is a one of a kind meetup: “This is a very unique event, it is not often possible to find so many MariaDB developers together and speaking about what they work on.”

Yes, we’re doing it lightning talk …

Introduction

The purpose of this article is to describe how Galera Cluster multi-master replication provides high availability for MySQL beyond simply replicating all updates to multiple nodes.

High availability has multiple dimensions, such as being able to detect and tolerate failures in individual components and be able to recover quickly. We will discuss the different failure modes that can happen in a cluster and how Galera facilitates the detection and recovery from each situation.

Your load balancer and application may be governed by different timeouts and recovery mechanisms, but an operational Galera Cluster will provide a stable foundation to recover the rest of your infrastructure in case of a widespread outage.

Failures of Individual Nodes

Synchronous replication requires the participation of all nodes but a Galera Cluster will detect and automatically remove a node that has gone down within …

Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog.

Cloud native technologies like Kubernetes help you compose scalable services out of a sea of small logical units. In our last post, we introduced Vitess (an open-source project that powers YouTube's main database) as a way of turning MySQL into a scalable Kubernetes application. Our goal was to make scaling your persistent datastore in Kubernetes as simple as scaling stateless app servers - just run a single command to launch more …

Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog. Cloud native technologies like Kubernetes help you compose scalable services out of a sea of small logical units. In our last post, we introduced Vitess(an open-source project that powers YouTube's main database) as a way of turning MySQL into a scalable Kubernetes application. Our goal was to make scaling your persistent datastore in Kubernetes as simple as scaling stateless app servers - just run a single command to launch more pods.

If you are in San Francisco on October 27, 2015, please come along to our MySQL team reception at Jillian’s at Metreon. You do not require an Oracle OpenWorld pass to attend, all we ask is that you please register in advance.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Pythian DevOps services accelerate AWS adoption and delivery of innovative customer experiences

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – AWS RE:INVENT – October 6, 2015 – Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies adopt disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) DevOps Competency. As an addition to Pythian’s existing Advanced Consulting Partner status in the APN, the DevOps Competency further validates the company’s deep capabilities and demonstrated performance in helping customers transform their business to be more efficient and agile leveraging the AWS platform and DevOps principles, particularly around continuous integration, continuous delivery, and configuration management.

Pythian DevOps services use a documented maturity model and client-centric strategic planning process to …