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Good news ! The MySQL, MariaDB & Friends Devroom has been accepted for FOSDEM’19 ‘s edition as announced earlier!
This event is a real success story for the MySQL ecosystem; the content, the speakers and the attendees are growing every year.
The first big change for this 2019 edition is that the MariaDB Foundation (Ian) is joining my efforts to build this Devroom. Don’t forget that FOSDEM takes place in Belgium, and our motto is “l’Union fait la Force” [“Unity is Strength”].
[Read more]The FOSDEM organization just confirmed that again this year the ecosystem of your favorite database will have its Devroom !
More info to come soon, but save the day: 2 & 3rd February 2019 in Brussels !
It seems the MySQL & Friends Devroom (MariaDB, Percona, Oracle, and all tools in the ecosystem) will be held on Saturday (to be confirmed).
Stay tuned !
When deciding on your backup strategy, one of the key components for Point In Time Recovery (PITR) will be the binary logs. Thankfully, the mysqlbinlog command allows you to easily take binary log backups, including those that would otherwise be encrypted on disk using encrypt_binlog=ON.
When
mysqlbinlog
is used with
--raw --read-from-remote-server --stop-never --verify-binlog-checksum
then it will retrieve binary logs from whichever master it is pointed to, and store …
[Read more]Offering over 110 conference sessions across Tuesday, 6 and Wednesday, 7 November, and a full tutorial day on Monday 5 November, we hope you’ll find that this fantastic line up of talks for Percona Live Europe 2018 to be one of our best yet! Innovation in technology continues to arrive at an accelerated rate, and you’ll find plenty to help you connect with the latest developments in open source database technologies at this acclaimed annual event.
Representatives from companies at the leading edge of our industry use the platform offered by Percona Live to showcase their latest developments and share plans for the future. If your career is dependent upon the use of open source database technologies you should not miss this conference!
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[Read more]For Percona Live Europe, I’ll be presenting the tutorial Elasticsearch 101 alongside my colleagues and fellow presenters from ObjectRocket Alex Cercel, DBA, and Mihai Aldoiu, Data Engineer. Here’s a brief overview of our tutorial.
Elasticsearch® is well known as a highly scalable search engine that stores data in a structure optimized for language based searches but its capabilities and use cases don’t stop there. In this tutorial, we’ll give you a hands-on introduction to Elasticsearch and give you a glimpse at some of the fundamental concepts. We’ll cover various administrative topics like …
[Read more]Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
I consider this to be the biggest news for the week: Alpha Build of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. Experiment with it in a Docker container. It is missing column compression with dictionary support, native partitioning for TokuDB and MyRocks (excited to see that this is coming!), and encryption key rotation and scrubbing. All in, this should be a fun release to try, test, and also to file bugs for!
Database paradigms are changing, and it is interesting to see Cloudflare introducing Workers KV a key-value store, that is eventually consistent and highly distributed (at their global …
[Read more]Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation.
It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX, which makes Alibaba Cloud the first public cloud to offer the enterprise offering of MariaDB, MariaDB TX 3.0. It is not available yet as of this announcement for rolling out from the interface, but I expect it will be soon. Exciting, as you can already get MariaDB Server on …
[Read more]Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available.
Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event. Our theme this year is “Connect. Accelerate. Innovate.” Percona Live is the …
[Read more]Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw representation from Oracle MySQL, MariaDB Corporation, Pythian, and Percona. Long-time organizer Ivan Zoratti has also handed off the baton to Maria Luisa Raviol, and going forward she will ensure meetups are at least once per quarter. It was a real pleasure to see MySQL Community Manager Dave Stokes at the event, too.
A new book to read: AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud. There is coverage of RDS, from the standpoint of an example application stack as …
[Read more]Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.12 on September 13, 2018.
Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB® and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. With over 1,000,000 downloads, Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL®, MariaDB®, Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB.
Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source. You can download packages …
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