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MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF).

The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework.
TAF provides the structure — …

Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path

I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way. …

MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction

TAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file.
This file captures exactly what the run used — …

When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security

You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. …

MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties

TAF: One File to Rule Them All
In a one‑on‑one review of TAF with Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, he looked at me and said: “I want everything in one user file.” …