Thursday, October 25, 2012
MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release: What’s New

Join the webinar to get all of the detail on MySQL Cluster 7.3 DMR and Early Access releases. Announced at the recent MySQL Connect conference, Oracle has published previews of MySQL Cluster 7.3.

MySQL Cluster 7.3 delivers more power and flexibility than ever before. The webinar will demonstrate each of these new features and show you how to get started.

WHO:
Andrew Morgan, MySQL Product Management
Mat Keep, MySQL Product Management

WHAT:
MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release: What’s New web presentation.

WHEN:
Thursday, October 25, 2012: 09:00 Pacific time (America)

Thu, Oct 25: 06:00 Hawaii time
Thu, Oct 25: 10:00 Mountain time (America)
Thu, Oct 25: 11:00 Central time (America)
Thu, Oct 25: 12:00 Eastern time (America)
Thu, Oct 25: 16:00 UTC
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Tilgin IPRG AB develops and delivers systems and software for the digitally-connected home. Using Tilgin home gateway software, as well as central software for remote control and operation of the network, Tilgin’s customers can offer their subscribers broadband services. The company has over 100 customers,  telecommunications and broadband operators, in more than 30 countries.

Tilgin needed a robust and scalable database solution for its auto-configuration server (ACS) product, tGem, used by its customers to manage the devices that provide their subscribers with access to television, internet, telephony, and other services. Tilgin chose MySQL as embedded database. This made it possible for Tilgin’s customers to easily and smoothly implement new generations of services, as well as to easily add new subscribers, ultimately enabling the company to save time and money. …

“devops” seems to be everywhere now, or at least everyone is talking about it. But what does that really mean? And how does the DBA integrate the movement ?

During next week’s webinar, I will explain to you the big principles of the devops culture and illustrate how DBA’s can (must) be part of the movement. Then I will explain the best practices on how to deploy MySQL in a large scale environment using tools coming from the devops world like git, puppet, vagrant, jenkins…

Be prepared for Halloween, register for this free webinar, and join me on Wednesday!

Update: With the enthusiastic responses that we have received from Barcelona, there is now an event defined at Evenbrite. If you are in Barcelona on November 13th, please register!

My company, Continuent, will have an engineering meeting in Barcelona, Spain, from November 11th to 16th.

We are meeting because, as we all work from home, we need to get in touch face-to-face at least a few times a year, and every time we try choosing a nice, inspiring place where we can both work and relax. This time, the choice went to Barcelona, which happens to be one of my favorite towns.

Now comes the community. We build software that is mainly directed to MySQL users (although we also dedicate much effort to replication to and from Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB). We use MySQL a …

Well, it happened again…  Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net.  While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time.  At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy highly available systems designed with disaster recovery in the cloud.  Here are a few high level best practices that I’ve seen when helping clients with AWS deployments:

1. Plan for failure
2. Plan for failure
3. Plan for … you get the idea

Plan for Failure

The single most critical piece is to plan for and expect failure.  The ease of setting an infrastructure in the cloud combined …

I’ve been browsing some mailing lists and so on (it doesn’t matter which ones) and came across the Great 32-Bit Debate afresh. The debate always starts with someone saying “I need 32-bit support” or “this doesn’t work on 32-bit systems,” and someone else raising an objection to that, saying that nobody uses 32-bit systems anymore and anyone who does is doing something wrong.

Why would anyone use a 32-bit OS in the year 2012? I can think of a few very good reasons.

1. The universe isn’t wholly x86_64 yet; there’s still ARM and other non-server systems.
2. Developer laptops often run 32-bit operating systems, especially when Linux is the developer’s preference, because it works better with a lot of proprietary software such as Flash and audio drivers, and generally causes a lot less user headache. This is especially relevant because Ubuntu, Fedora, and other popular distributions are targeted towards …

A Pattern for a Newly Hired DBA? I don’t think this experience is unique. It has been shared repeatedly among those starting a job as a DBA (database administrator) at a new company, especially when the organization has never had a dedicated DBA. The conversation usually goes something like this: – “Welcome aboard <insert name here>! Here [...] …

Choosing a Next-Gen Database: The new world order of NoSQL, NewSQL & MySQL Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

The database market is becoming increasingly complex and is changing on an almost daily basis.  Matt Aslett is the Research Manager for Data Management and Analytics at 451 Research.  He has overall responsibility for the coverage [...] Read More

Background: SkySQL is a distributed company. Nearly all of us work from home. To be productive, we need to emulate the best aspects of collaborating as if we were working next to one another. Given that nearly all of us had worked under similar distributed conditions at MySQL AB, we knew what we were getting into when we were founded. Obviously, we wanted to learn from our past experiences when making our choices for tools and processes.

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