We are proud to announce that Percona was selected as a participating organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 program, this is our second year as a participating org with the GSoC program.

GSoC is a great program to involve young student developers in open source projects. We participated in the program in 2019 for the first time and we were really happy and satisfied with the results.
Percona Platform Engineering team decided to participate again for the 2020 program and we are glad and really happy to inform you that we were selected and welcome the student to work with our team during the summer of 2020 on their GSoC Project.

Preparations

We started planning for GSoC around November-December 2019, with the help from our Product Management team, we were able to shortlist a few ideas which we thought were really the right fit for …

Early on in the MySQL 8.0 Release series there were a couple of key items related to our everyday use.  They are MySQL-Shell‘s establishing the “Pluggable Password Store” in 8.0.12, and its super enhance API Command Line Interface in 8.0.13… which the Pluggable Password Store also adopted. Sadly, most content highlighting the API CLI capability when it came… Read More »

There are many users of MySQL in Cloud environment regions. It’s ideal that those MySQL instances are implemented with only private-ips in the respective Subnet. No public-ips. For that matter, all cloud infrastructure resources are ideally placed behind networks that provision only private-ips.  This limits any front-end attack surface for an application stack.  Certainly the up coming MySQL… Read More »

We are happy to invite you to the next MysQL User Camp India event which is hold on March 5th, 2020 in the Oracle office in Bangalore, India. Please find details below:

• Date: March 5, 2020
• Time: 3-5:30pm
• Place: 0C001, Block 1, B wing, Kalyani Magnum IT park, JP Nagar, 7th phase, Bengaluru, India
• Agenda: 
  • MySQL Analytics Cloud Service by Nipun Agarwal, the Vice President, Research & Advanced Development 
  • Metadata Synchronization in NDB Cluster 8.0 by Arnab Ray, the Lead Member Technical Staff
  • Creating multiple DB accounts for an App by Rahul Sisondia, the Principal Member Technical Staff
• Registration: send an email to: <tinku.ajit@oracle.com>
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As follow up to the regular shows announcements, we would like to inform you about places & shows where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at during March to May 2020 timeframe. Please find the details with a list of MySQL talks & booth details (if available at this time) below:

• March 2020:

  • Southern California Linux Expo (ScaLE), Pasadena, US, March 5-8, 2020

    • MySQL talk: "MySQL New Features for Developers" by David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager. 
      • Timing: Friday, March 6, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
      • Room: 101
    • Booth: please find us in the expo …

We are happy to announce that on Monday, Jan 13, 2020 there will be a meetup in Dubai on the "MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin" topic. Please find details below:

• Name: MySQL User Group U.A.E meetup
• Topic: MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin
• Date: Monday, January 13, 2020
• Time: 7pm - 10pm
• Place: Dubai Internet City
• Agenda:
  • Kenny Gryp from the MySQL Product Management Group talk about MySQL Database Architectures (MySQL InnoDB cluster)
  • Frederic (LeFred) Descamps from the MySQL Community team will talk about MySQL Shell (including NoSQL)
  • Mario Beck, Manager of MySQL Enterprise PreSales team & Chetan …

As follow up to the regular shows announcements, we would like to inform you about places & shows where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at during December to February timeframe. Please find the list below:

December 2019:

• UKOUG Tech Fest, Brighton, UK, December 1-4, 2019

  • Oracle is having a big booth at this show, however this time MySQL is not part of this. Instead David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager has a MySQL talk on "MySQL 8.0" scheduled for December 2nd @16:45-17:30. Please see the schedule.
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We are happy to announce that for the second time a MySQL meetup is hold in Frankfurt Germany. Please see details below:

• Date: October 22, 2019
• Time: 18:30-21:00
• Place: Oracle Deutschland B.V & Co. KG, Neue Mainzer Str. 46-50 - Frankfurt am Main
• Agenda: we will talk about MySQL best practices then have some evening relax with pizza & drinks!
• Speakers: Henry Kröger & Carsten Thalheimer  

More information and registration here.

We are looking forward to meeting & talking to you on Oct 22!

As follow up to the previous blog announcement we would like to inform you about where you can find MySQL & MySQL Community Team during October & November 2019. Please find the list below:

October 2019:

• PerconaLive, Amsterdam, Holland, September 30-October 2, 2019

  • For detailed information see the blog post from last week.
• OpenTech Summit, Bangkok, …

This week you can find our MySQL & MySQL Community experts at following shows:

• db tech showcase, Tokyo, Japan, September 25-27, 2019

  • MySQL team as Silver sponsor will have a booth in the expo area and in total 5 speaking slots related to MySQL as follows: 
    • Two User Case Studies of MySQL
    • Two Technical Sessions by MySQL User Community members (MyNA)
    • MySQL Server, MySQL Workbench and MySQL Shell by MySQL GBU 
  • Please watch organizers' website for more details.
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