Continuent, a leading provider of database clustering and replication software has five (5) new positions open:
Build/Test Engineer Senior Database Availability and Clustering Engineer Senior Database Replication Engineer Data Replication Sales Engineer Clustering and Replication Test Development Engineer
If you want to get in on the ground floor of a growing company in a challenging field
MySQL Connectors provide connectivity to the MySQL server for client programs. APIs provide low-level access to the MySQL protocol and MySQL resources. Both Connectors and the APIs enable you to connect and execute MySQL statements from another language or environment. Oracle provides a number of these, enabling developers to build database applications in the language of their choice. Among those developed by Oracle are drivers for JDBC and ODBC. Any system that works with JDBC or ODBC can use MySQL. And you can find many more, including drivers for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and even Eiffel!
To get a head start on developing with MySQL, take the MySQL for Developers training course. This …
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Like a lot of developers I started using a MacBook Pro around the
time of Tiger. I instantly loved it: simple, fast,
and virtually no system administration overhead. The genius of OS
X was that it never got in the way. You opened the box, pulled
out the machine, and got to work. It had a great user interface,
excellent development tools (Eclipse in my case) and the
command utilities like ssh, rsync, and bash worked seamlessly
with Linux systems.
Well, that was then and this is now. Starting with Lion I began
to spend an increasing amount of time fighting OS X instead of
getting work done. I'm now using Mavericks and have not seen much
improvement, in fact quite the contrary. Here are just a few of
the problems after the Lion to Mavericks upgrade:
ConFoo, the conference for web developers, is hosting its fifth edition. It will take place in Montreal at the Hilton Bonaventure on February 26th – 28th. These five days are packed with great technical talks and semi-private trainings on your favorite technologies.
It’s definitely a conference for IT professionals, wether you are a developer, integrator or project manager. With its 150 talks, you are sure to find a presentation that will help you grow your core skills. Among them you can find :
Meet the experts who crafted your programming language or framework, and who push the technology to a new level. Exchange …
[Read more]MySQL is an excellent choice for a low cost embedded database. Over 3,000 ISVs, OEMs and VARs choose MySQL for this purpose and benefit from significant cost savings when compared to using a competing database product.
The MySQL for Developers training course teaches you how to plan, design and implement applications using MySQL. Expert Oracle University instructors teach you through realistic examples, interactive instruction and hands-on exercises.
This course brings you lots of interesting facts. For example, the 'libmysqld' library is effectively a MySQL server in its own right. it is shipped as part of the standard MySQL installation. Developers with C/C++ ability can embed this library easily within their applications and it can do most of what a …
[Read more]As noted in a previous post, MySQL Connector/Java supports multi-master replication topographies as of version 5.1.27, allowing you to scale read load to slaves while directing write traffic to multi-master (or replication ring) servers. The new release of version 5.1.28 builds upon this, allowing live management of replication host (single or multi-master) topographies. This parallels functionality that has long existed for load-balanced connections, and enables users to add or remove hosts – or now promote slaves – for Java applications without requiring application restart. This post aims to …
[Read more]We are announcing the new MySQL for Developers course. This training:
You can take this course as a:
MySQL Connector/Java has long had support for replication-aware deployment, allowing a single logical Connection object to effectively “pool” connections to both a master and (potentially multiple) slaves. This allowed scale-out of read load by distribution of read traffic to slaves, while routing write load to the master. The JDBC specification provides a nice hook to know what’s read-only traffic – Connection.setReadOnly(). When a boolean value of true is passed, a ReplicationConnection will route further commands a selected slave instance, while values of false trigger routing to the master. This is sufficient for many simple replication topographies, but not all – most notably, it …
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At the first ever CodingSerbia conference in Novi Sad, Serbia, I did
an introductory talk about how iOS development works in general,
with a focus on Java developers who did not have any experience
with either the tools, frameworks or even Objective-C as a
language.
The slides can be viewed here:
A recording has been made and published on YouTube:
As Tomas announced in his keynote at MySQL Connect 2013, we are
working on a brand new product called MySQL Fabric. Along with
this release of MySQL Fabric, we are releasing Connector/J 5.1.26
with Fabric support on labs.mysql.com. This is an alpha-quality
release that adds support for scalability features in MySQL
Fabric. Sharding and read/write splitting are the initial
features supported by Connector/J.
In a setup involving read/write splitting or customized sharding,
we generally have to duplicate knowledge of this configuration in
the client applications. This is done in connection strings
specified in configuration files or directly in code. With MySQL
Fabric, we can express our system-wide configuration of database
servers in a way that it can be accessed by client applications.
In cases where this needs to change (and it always does..), the
configurations affecting client applications no longer need to be
changed. The connector will …