Diegesis, the London-based business and technology consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has joined the non-profit MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor to ensure one of the world’s most popular database servers – that also powers Wikipedia – remains free of charge and accessible to all. The MariaDB Server is a general-purpose open-source Relational Database Management System (DBMS) that relies solely on funding from benefactors like Diegesis. Today’s announcement also strengthens Diegesis’ commitment to enabling organisations in the public and private sector to modernise and migrate their legacy systems to the latest technology frameworks without vendor lock-in, limits or licensing traps.
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Imagine hacking your way to $10,000 in prizes (sponsored by MariaDB plc) – and topping it off with an exclusive dinner in Finland with Monty Widenius, the legendary creator of MySQL and MariaDB. Sounds unreal? That’s exactly what’s at stake in the upcoming MariaDB-Python Hackathon.
Why Join?
This isn’t just another hackathon. It’s your chance to:
- 💡 Innovate with AI & Databases – Showcase MariaDB’s unique powers, from Vector Search for RAG/LLMs to Oracle compatibility and more.
- 🔌 Build Killer Integrations – Connect 1MariaDB to frameworks, ORMs, Jupyter notebooks, or any open-source project you love.
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Earlier I posted that this presentation was about to happen, and it did! I presented to a keen audience of over 20 people live, and number who watched later (it was in a rather early US time, however attracted a number of attendees from Europe, India, Thailand all the way to east of Australia at UTC+10:30.
Below is the video, and the slide outline is available.
The journey to this presentation began as a request to update our Clang version that we use in Buildbot, MariaDB’s CI system.
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This week, I turn 50 — my golden jubilee, if we’re speaking in royal terms.
Once upon a time, a much younger woman wandered into the magical forest of open source. The creatures were friendly, the quests exciting, and every day promised new adventures. She thought the story would end with “…and they all lived happily ever after.”
But any Queen worth her crown knows — that’s where the real work begins.
Because after the confetti settles and the palace gates close, someone still has to fix the drawbridge, negotiate with neighbouring kingdoms, and explain to the court jester why his “harmless little prank” brought down production.
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That’s the question every tester dreads to hear, because it usually means we’ve let something really embarrassing slip into a release.
The real answer is, “Yes, we do,” though that doesn’t offer much comfort if you’re facing issues in production. Still, during quieter moments, people sometimes ask less rhetorically what kind of testing takes place in MariaDB. Let’s dive into that.
A path of a bugfix into a maintenance release
When a pull request (or an internal patch outside the PR system) is pushed into the MariaDB/server repository on Github, it is picked by the MariaDB server CI, Buildbot.
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The MariaDB Foundation is proud to welcome Virtuozzo as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing a shared commitment to building an open, sovereign, and innovation-driven digital future for Europe.
Virtuozzo is a pioneer in virtualization and cloud infrastructure software, with deep European roots and global reach. Their support of the MariaDB Foundation is not just a sponsorship — it’s a statement of strategic alignment between two organizations shaping the backbone of an independent European technology ecosystem.
This partnership brings together two essential layers of infrastructure — Virtuozzo powering the cloud and MariaDB powering the data.
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The Ford–Cadillac Parable
In 1902, Henry Ford’s second car company was taken over by investors and renamed Cadillac. The designs were his. The engineering was his. But the brand? That now belonged to someone else.
So Ford walked away and started fresh.
Years later, even as Ford cars became wildly successful, people kept asking:
“Are you the guy who builds Cadillacs?”
To which he had to answer—over and over again:
“No. I’m not building Cadillacs anymore.”
It took years before the public truly grasped the difference.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rumahweb, one of Indonesia’s most trusted and long-standing web hosting providers, has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor.
Founded in 2002, Rumahweb has built a reputation for reliability, innovation, and a strong commitment to customer support. With a wide range of offerings — including shared hosting, VPS, cloud hosting, and domain services — Rumahweb empowers individuals, SMEs, and large enterprises alike to succeed in the digital space. Backed by 24/7 professional technical assistance, they have become a pillar of Indonesia’s internet infrastructure.
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