Presentations from the 2017 MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen

The following sessions were held on the two presentation days of the MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen.

Day 1

  • MariaDB in 2017 (Otto Kekäläinen)
  • What’s in the pipeline for 10.3 and beyond (Monty) – Slides
  • AliSQL Roadmap (Xiao Bin)
  • JSON support in MariaDB (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – Slides
  • Replication (Lixun Peng) – Slides
  • Encryption key management (Ben)
  • InnoDB in MariaDB 10.2, 10.3 and beyond (Marko Mäkelä) – Slides
  • Column Compression – Overview, and how it differs from other implementations (Sergey Vojtovich) – Slides
  • MTR Demonstration (Daniel Black)

Day 2

  • Optimizer improvements in MariaDB 10.2 and 10.3 (Vicențiu Ciorbaru & Sergei Petrunia) – Slides 1, Slides 2
  • Features of TMySQL/TSpider port into MariaDB (Felix Liang) – Slides
  • Spider (Kentoku Shiba) – Slides
  • MyRocks (Yoshinori Matsunobu) – Slides
  • MyRocks in MariaDB (Sergei Petrunia) – Slides
  • Instant ADD COLUMN (Marko Mäkelä) – Slides
  • TXSQL Encryption & Audit Introduction (Shaohua Wang) – Slides
  • Introducing PolarDB (Lixun Peng)
  • Challenges in hosting MySQL (Jun Su) – Slides
  • Atomic operations (Sergey Vojtovich) – Slides
  • Memory barriers (Sergey Vojtovich) – Slides
  • MariaDB 10.4 roadmap (Monty)

M|18 MariaDB Users Conference and the MariaDB Developers Unconference in New York, February 2018

February 2018 sees New York City again play host to the MariaDB Users Conference, M|18. The submission deadline for the Call for Papers is October 31, so there’s still time to get your proposal in. For those attending, Early Bird pricing is applicable until the end of November. Details at https://m18.mariadb.com/.

M|18, on 26 and 27 February is for all users of MariaDB. It will be preceded on 24 and 25 of February by the 2018 MariaDB Developers Unconference, for developers of the MariaDB Server software. Details for this event will follow soon, but if you’re know you’re going to be in New York and attending the Developers Unconference, feel free to sign up so long on the Meetup page. …

Visa Applications for the MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen

If you’re attending the MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen, China and require a visa, you’ll probably need a letter of invitation as part of your application. Please supply the following information to ian@mariadb.org, and we will arrange a letter of invitation from our hosts.

Full name:
Gender:
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
Passport number:
Passport issue date:
Passport expiry date:
Company Name:
Job Title:
Who will be covering your expenses:

You will probably also need a letter of employment from your employer, as well as a valid return ticket, but please check the requirements closely with your local embassy/consulate to make sure you have everything needed. …

2017年第2次MariaDB开发者大会(深圳,中国)相关安排

(The original English version of this post is available here).

MariaDB 2017年第2次开发者大会即将在深圳召开,这是MariaDB社区第一次在亚洲地区举办开发者大会。
以下是本次活动的相关安排:

11月13日 — 新贡献者日
11月14~15日 — 开发者大会
11月16~17日 — Patch研讨会
宝存科技负责筹办这次大会。如果您有意参加,请在本次会议的Meetup.com页面上注册。
所有活动均免费参加。我们建议您入住会议举办地点附近的酒店。

新贡献者日

11月13日是专门为新贡献者预留的一天。 如果您有兴趣成为MariaDB的贡献者,但不知道如何起步;或者已经做了一些贡献,但希望更深入地了解MariaDB的开发流程,那么这一天的会值得您参加。 参会者需要有C / C ++基础,带上笔记本电脑!会议将兼顾英语和普通话。

开发者大会

11月14日和15日是传统的开发者会议。欢迎任何有兴趣在MariaDB开源项目中贡献力量(代码或者其它形式的贡献)的人参加。 参与会议并不要求您是核心开发人员,这是一个开放的社区,我们欢迎那些愿意学习和参与开源的新贡献者。
这两天我们将就MariaDB开发有关的各种话题进行深入的介绍和讨论。
这次活动是一个开放的会议,有很多机会对各种议题进行讨论与协作。性能、新特性、连接器、安装包以及文档等方向,您可以参与帮助我们一起决定一些事情。许多MariaDB核心开发人员将出席并与大家讨论。
这次活动的目标是为新老开发者提供一个面对面的交流平台,以便大家能够一起攻克一些难题,或者对新特性进行规划。

Patch研讨会

在开发者会议之后,经过了大量的展示和讨论,我们需要着手工作了。这2天将用于补丁审查(Code Review),面对面的讨论比正常的在线审查流程更高效。这也是个好机会可以把前面讨论的好想法一起来设计好实现,因为这些想法还很新,您可以亲自与其他开发者进行沟通。

如果您对该活动有任何疑问,或有关如何贡献MariaDB,请随时在MariaDB开发人员邮件列表MariaDB讨论邮件列表进行讨论。
请在这里注册MariaDB Developers开发者大会。 …

2017-2 Developers Unconference and Related Events, Shenzhen

(A Chinese version of this post is available here).

The 2nd 2017 MariaDB Developers Unconference will be our first in Asia, and will take place in Shenzhen, China, along with two related events:

13 November – New contributor day
14-15 November – Developers Unconference
16-17 November – Patch review days
Provisional Schedule

Shannon are kindly hosting the event. If you want to attend, please sign up on the event page at Meetup.com.

All events are free of charge to attend. We recommend you stay in a hotel near the venue.

New contributor day

The 13th of November will be a day dedicated to new developers. …

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
*No-Slave-Left-Behind (Jean-François Gagné) – periscope, slides
*Making Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM)/Percona Toolkit/Percona XtraBackup better for MariaDB Server (Peter Zaitsev)
*Instant ADD COLUMN (Tencent, Alibaba, Monty, Marko)
*MyRocks in MariaDB: why and how (Sergei Petrunia) – periscope, slides
*Per-engine mysql.gtid_slave_pos (Jean-François Gagné) – periscope, slides

Day Two

*InnoDB in 10.2 and beyond (Marko Mäkelä) – periscope, slides
*10.3 Features (Monty Widenius) – periscope
*Temporal Support / As Of in 10.3 (Alvin Chang) – periscope, slides
*Let’s write history – Git best practices (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – periscope, slides
*BuildBot and Travis-CI – improving development speed with airtight CI infrastructure (Otto Kekäläinen, Daniel Bartholomew) – periscope
*Collaboration in Spider development (Kentoku and others)- slides
*Custom aggregate functions in 10.3 (Vicențiu Ciorbaru and Varun)
*Atomic operations and memory barriers in C (Sergey)
*Features of TMySQL / TSpider port into MariaDB (Felixliang/Vinchen)
*Query optimization features in MariaDB 10.2 (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – periscope1, periscope2, slides
*Less passwords, more security – socket auth by default in MariaDB 10.3 (Otto Kekäläinen) – slides
*The two little bugs that almost brought down Booking.com (Jean-François Gagné) – slides

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 vote counter. Based on this, the schedule will be drawn up.

BNY Mellon are kindly hosting this years event. …

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.

For more slides and presentations, see: