Category Archives: Conferences/Events
In our quest to promote development of MariaDB Server, what we have come to call Unconferences form a key part. These developer meetings have traditionally been organised twice a year, and 2019 is no exception. After the North American Unconference in New York in February, Asia Pacific was in turn with Shanghai in November. And, no, we have not forgotten Europe; expect an EMEA Unconference next year.
Hosts and environment
Microsoft were our hosts, at their fabulous campus in the peaceful outskirts of Shanghai. “Where are all the Chinese?” was a common foreigner reaction;
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The 2019 Shanghai MariaDB Developers Unconference is being hosted by Microsoft Shanghai, from 19 November. Slides will be added to this post as they become available.
Day One
- Welcome by MariaDB Foundation CEO (Kaj)
- MariaDB Foundation from the perspective of a Board Member (Eric)
- Sponsoring MariaDB Foundation (Prashant)
- History of MariaDB (Monty)
- New Contributor Tutorial – MariaDB Server & more (Vicentiu)
- ALTER TABLE Improvements in MariaDB (Marko)
- The Path of the Query (Sergei G)
- Main classes/structures of MariaDB and how they are connected (Oleksandr)
- How to add a new function and debug MariaDB Server (Monty)
- How MariaDB optimizer works in general (Oleksandr)
- Stress Reduction (Prashant)
Day Two
- The customization features of MariaDB Spider in Tencent Games (Will Han)
- Memory management Conventional query/PS/SP (Oleksandr)
- MariaDB Feature Plan: RecycleBin for DDL (Lixun Peng)
- TBA (Alexey)
- MariaDB Server 10.5 InnoDB Status &
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(The original English version of this post is available here).
MariaDB基金会很高兴地宣布，2019 年度MariaDB开发者会议将于上海举行。继第一届2017年深圳开发者会议之后，这是该会议在中国的第二次举办。此次会议将于2019年11月19日周二开始，2019年11月21日周四结束。
此次会议将由微软上海分公司友情承办。请有意向与会者，点击此链接报名参加event page at Meetup.com. 我们建议您选择会议地址附近的酒店入住。所有会议均免费参加。
此次会议的模式将与以往相同，欢迎大家围绕所有主题进行讨论与合作。我们欢迎每一位有兴趣为MarianDB开源项目做贡献的人的参与。参与形式不限，可以为编程或其他任何方式。参与人员也不局限于核心开发人员。这是一次开放的聚会，我们欢迎喜欢开源的学习和工作方式，并愿意为MariaDB做出贡献的新伙伴和老朋友。
此次会议将围绕MariaDB开源项目展开深度演讲与交流。届时很多核心MariaDB开发者也将出席会议。
此次会议的目的在于能够提供一个面对面交流的平台，使新老开发者们能共同破解难题或者规划未来。
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(A Chinese version of this post is available here).
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the 2019 MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shanghai. This will be our second Unconference in China, after the 2017 Developers Unconference in Shenzhen, and will take place from Tuesday 19 November to Thursday 21 November 2019.
Microsoft Shanghai are kindly hosting the event. If you want to attend, please sign up on the event page at Meetup.com. We recommend you stay in a hotel near the venue.
All events are free of charge to attend.
The event will be the traditional unconference, with lots of opportunities for discussions and collaboration around any topic. …
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The 2019 New York MariaDB Developers UnConference was hosted by Hudson River Trading, on February 23 and February 24.
Below are a list of the sessions with links to slides where available (some were discussions with no slides). This post will be updated as slides/video become available.
Day One
- State of the Infra (Teodor Ionita)
- The Path of the Query (Sergei Golubchik)
- How to write your first patch (Anel Husaković) – slides
- How to write a simple plugin for MariaDB ((Vicențiu Ciorbaru)
- GSoC Projects and what can we do better (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
- ALTER TABLE improvements in MariaDB 10.4 (Marko) – slides
- Account Locking and Password Expiration (Robert Bîndar) – slides
- Buildbot gatekeeping and staging on main repo (Teodor Ionita)
- Debian/Ubuntu debug and packaging overview (Faustin) – slides
Day Two
- MyRocks: recent feature add-ons (Yoshinori Matsunobu)
- Query optimizer in MariaDB 10.4 (Sergei Petrunia) – slides
- Shutdown refactoring in 10.4 (Sergey Vojtovich)
- Lessons for the Optimizer from TPC-DS Benchmark run (Sergei Petrunia) – slides
- Static, dynamic code security checks & fuzzing (Teodor Ionita)
- The open source roadmap of MariaDB.com in 2019 (Rasmus Johansson)
- XtraBackup at Alibaba Cloud (Fungo Wang) – slides
- Columnstore: significant changes and future projects (Roman Nozdrin)
- Alibaba plan to open source Double-Sync Replication/MySQL-Raft Replication and latest Flashback improvements (Lixun Peng)
- MariaDB ColumnStore Scalability and Transactions (Sasha V) – slides
- Backup in MariaDB (Monty Widenius)
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Security is one of the hottest topics in Computer Software today, everybody handles highly valuable data. From private personal data, medical records for clinics to customers credit card information for online bussinesses, malicious data breaches are always part of the worst case scenario.
Robert Bindar (robert@mariadb.org) is going to present a session at the 2019 MariaDB Unconference, New York about two new security features in the MariaDB Server: User Account Locking and Password Expiration.
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Have you ever wondered how to get started with contributions to the world’s most popular open source database? Did you have a problems with building and configuring from source code, writing the contribution patch and testing the server with use of mysql-test-run (mtr) framework afterwards?
How to make your patch visible to other developers?
In this section we will go through each step in this process from getting the latest source code, testing the server and writing your first contribution with the live demo!
Let’s get started! Anel Husakovic (https://mariadb.org/about/staff/anel-husakovic/) – is going to talk about it all at our New York Unconference 23d-24th of February …
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What a great place for informal interactions, strengthening the network, and hearing the latest news from the grapevine! Last weekend 1.-3. Feb 2019, over 8000 developers met in Brussels for FOSDEM 2019.
For the overall atmosphere, take a look at this 1:05 long video by Sofia Ek.
MariaDB Foundation was present with six staff people (Ian Gilfillan, Vicențiu Ciorbaru, Teodor Ionita, Robert Bîndar, Zak Greant and myself) and two board members (Eric Herman from Booking.com and Serg Golubchik from MariaDB Corporation). …
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