I am very pleased to announce my latest book, "3D Printing with Delta Printers" (Apress 2015). This book is focused entirely on delta printers including how to properly, build, configure, calibrate, use, and maintain your delta printer. The book is a companion to my "Building and Maintaining Your 3D Printer" (Apress 2014).


You can find both books in bookstores and online book retailers.

Enjoy!

Failure is a fact of life, and cannot be avoided. No IT vendor in their right mind will claim 100% system availability, although some might claim several nines :-) We might have armies of ops soldiers doing everything they possibly can to avoid failure, yet we still need to prepare for it. What do you do when the sh*t hits the fan?

Whether you use unbreakable private datacenters or public cloud platforms, Disaster Recovery (DR) is indeed a key issue. This is not about copying your data to a backup site and being able to restore it, this is about business continuity and how fast you can recover services when disaster strikes. 

In this blog post, we will look into different ways of designing your Galera Clusters for fault tolerance, including failover and failback strategies. 

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Disaster recovery involves a set of policies and procedures to enable the recovery or …

In this article, we introduce myawr and mongoawr system .

Read this PDF, you will learn how to configure them.

How to configure AWR system.

Thu, 2015-08-06 09:55maria-luisaraviol

MariaDB and Foedus paths crossed less than a year ago when I met Paolo Messina at a two-day IBM event in Tuscany. IBM invited me, as the MariaDB Italian representative, to introduce MariaDB as an Open Source Solution for the POWER8 platform.

Foedus was there as one of the top Italian IBM Partners and as an Italian ISV company that provides an ERP solution platform named “Octobus”. Since 2008, Foedus has developed innovative solutions and management tools using the LAMP stack as the foundation of their technology. Foedus is at the same time open to other platforms. Octobus, which has been developed in Java, also runs on Windows platform.

When we met in October 2014, Foedus was about to test their solution on a POWER8 machine. They wanted to consider POWER8 as an option because of the great performance of POWER8 machines, and because it was a great opportunity to run a native …

It has been a while since I posted something. I’m running in to some technical difficulties with the series of posts I have been working on. Mainly that WordPress thinks it needs to make my example code invisible.

Obviously that isn’t very helpful, and I’m working on it.

What are the posts about, you ask (or maybe you didn’t, but I’ll tell you anyway)? I’m putting a few session together on parsing XML in MySQL and making it perform well.

Hopefully everything is worked out within a week.

VividCortex is sponsoring and exhibiting at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, California November 3 - 5. Stop by our booth to get a free product demo and see how we can revolutionize your database monitoring.

Click here for more details and registration.

VividCortex is sponsoring and exhibiting at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, California November 3 - 5. Stop by our booth to get a free product demo and see how we can revolutionize your database monitoring.

Click here for more details and registration.

As I flipped the channels in my car, Josh Groban’s soulful voice floated over my speakers and caressed my very soul, singing about our shared timeless yearning to solve the monitoring problems that plague us all:

I can’t cage you in my arms
When my heart is jumping forward
To avoid your false alarms

“These lyrics are so deeply meaningful to me!” I thought, reaching for the box of Kleenex. SING IT, Josh! And he did, his soaring voice speaking of anomaly detection algorithms (I understand the following lyrics to be addressed to a system metric such as CPU, don’t you agree?).

And you can’t tell me not to stay
When I opened up your window
And I watched you fly away

Now there’s a song I can relate to! If you need to stop reading and go listen to Josh sing his sensible, logical lyrics that always …

As I flipped the channels in my car, Josh Groban’s soulful voice floated over my speakers and caressed my very soul, singing about our shared timeless yearning to solve the monitoring problems that plague us all:

I can’t cage you in my arms
When my heart is jumping forward
To avoid your false alarms

“These lyrics are so deeply meaningful to me!” I thought, reaching for the box of Kleenex. SING IT, Josh! And he did, his soaring voice speaking of anomaly detection algorithms (I understand the following lyrics to be addressed to a system metric such as CPU, don’t you agree?).

And you can’t tell me not to stay
When I opened up your window
And I watched you fly away

Now there’s a song I can relate to! If you need to stop reading and go listen to Josh sing his sensible, logical lyrics that always …

I want to take a moment to thank you for reading this blog. We are working very hard on cool tools for you to use with MySQL and we really enjoy spreading the news of these tools to you.  With this in mind I wanted to update you on something that is changing. We are moving to a new blog home at http://insidemysql.com/.  From this point on all new content will be posted on our new blog and we encourage each of you to update your bookmarks accordingly.  Our aggregator at http://planet.mysql.com/ has already been updated.

Don' t worry! The old posts will still be here so your old bookmarks will still work.  You can find our new Windows focused category at

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