Author: Ian Gilfillan
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2017 MariaDB Developers (Un)Conference New York Presentations
The 2017 MariaDB Developers (Un)Conference was held on April 9 and 10 in New York, and was kindly hosted by BNY Mellon.
Below are a list of the sessions with links to slides/Periscope where available.
Day One
*Welcoming talk: BNY Mellon and MariaDB (Zak Murad), MariaDB Foundation in 2017 (Otto Kekäläinen) – periscope *What’s new in MariaDB 10.2 (Sergei Golubchik) – periscope, slides *AliSQL’s roadmap and contribution for MariaDB (Xiaobin Lin) *MyRocks overview and features (Yoshinori Matsunob) – periscope, slides […]
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Alibaba Cloud becomes a Platinum Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation today announced that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has become its platinum sponsor. The sponsorship will help the Foundation in its goals to ensure continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, and to drive adoption, serving an ever growing community of users and developers. “Alibaba Cloud is committed to contributing to the open source community and empowering developers around the world. Today, more than one hundred thousand MySQL instances are running on […]
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2017 Developers (Un)Conference, New York
The 2017 MariaDB Developers Conference is crossing the ocean this year, and will be taking place in New York, from 9 to 10 April.
The unconference will last for two days and you can join for the whole time, or as little time as you wish.
The schedule of this unconference will be drafted in a public spreadsheet. Initially, anyone attending can help set the schedule by adding sessions, as well as voting for sessions they’re interested in, by incrementing the […]
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MariaDB Foundation Board Changes
At the most recent MariaDB Foundation board meeting, MariaDB Corporation’s Rasmus Johansson stepped down as chair and from the board. He has been replaced by Booking.com’s Eric Herman as chair, and on the board by Michael Howard. Michael is the CEO of the MariaDB Corporation. Executive participation from the Corporation will support a good relationship between the Foundation and the Corporation, and the Foundation greatly appreciates all the work that the MariaDB Corporation is doing for the MariaDB server project.
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MariaDB Presentations from Percona Live Amsterdam
In October, the MariaDB Foundation attended Percona Live in Amsterdam. Below is a selection of MariaDB-related sessions with links to the slides. There were numerous other sessions that were relevant for MariaDB users, but those listed below are some of the most closely related.
- The MariaDB Foundation – Ensuring continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem – Otto Kekäläinen
- Securing your MySQL/MariaDB data – Ronald Bradford
- Transparent tablespace and log encryption on MariaDB 10.1 using Amazon Key Management Service – Jan Lindström
- Meet MariaDB 10.2 – Sergei Golubchik
- Less passwords, more security: mass administration of MariaDB servers with socket authentication – Otto Kekäläinen
- Scalable Big Query Using SPIDER Parallel Queries and OpenSVC – Stephane Varoqui
- The MySQL Ecosystem in 2016 – Colin Charles
- Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB – Federico Razzoli
- Introducing ScaleDB, the New Clustered, Distributed Storage Engine for MySQL – Ivan Zoratti
- Optimizing Queries Using Window Functions – Vicentiu-Marian Ciorbaru
- Using SPIDER for sharding in production – Stephane Varoqui, Kayoko Goto, Kentoku Shiba
- Common Table Expressions in MariaDB 10.2 – Galina Shalygina, Sergei Petrunia
- MySQL/MariaDB Parallel Replication: inventory, use-cases and limitations – Jean-François Gagné
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MariaDB at DebConf16
At MariaDB we often get to deal with tables, but this time we took on one of a different type, and climbed to the top. We’re in Cape Town for Debconf16, and managed to take some time to climb to the top of Table Mountain.
It’s been a productive visit. Otto, who handles MariaDB packaging for Debian and Ubuntu, and is also CEO of the Foundation, hosted a BoF session on MariaDB and MySQL packaging. It’s an interesting time on […]
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2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup
The 2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup will be taking place in Amsterdam, from 6 – 8 October.
The meetup will last for three days and you can join for the whole time, or as little time as you wish.
The schedule of this unconference will be drafted in a public spreadsheet. Initially, anyone attending can help set the schedule by adding sessions, as well as voting for session’s they’re interested in, by incrementing the vote counter. Based on this, the schedule will be […]
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MariaDB wins LinuxQuestions.org Database of the Year for the Third Year Running
MariaDB was voted database of the year for the third year in succession in the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice awards, winning 45.49% of the vote, up from 34.21% last year. Thanks to everyone from the community that voted for us.
2016 will be a busy year, including the upcoming release of MariaDB 10.2. Take a look at some of the features in the pipeline at Plans for 10.x.
And as a community-driven project, you’re of course very welcome to get involved […]