February in New York City is again MariaDB time, and the first MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2019 will take place on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 February, with Hudson River Trading as kind hosts. The event is free to attend and you can join for the entire weekend, or as little time as you wish. […]
READ MORERunning MariaDB in a Docker container
Virtualisation has been a very popular technique for both development and production systems for many years. It allows multiple software environments to run on the same physical machine. Containerisation takes this idea even further. It allows you to segment your software environment down to the level of individual software packages. This means you can install […]
READ MOREMariaDB Foundation at the Google Mentor Summit
The MariaDB Foundation has had 2 projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2018, of which one we deemed successful. Teodor Niculescu (teodorvicentiuniculescu@gmail.com)’s work was part of an effort to improve MariaDB’s query optimiser by providing faster histogram collection using equal-width histograms. His project is not yet in a release worthy state, yet we are […]
READ MORETampere MariaDB Developers Unconference: Reportback & Presentations
The second MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2018 was held in Tampere, Finland on 26-29 June. The event was kindly hosted by Seravo and the Crazy Town venue offered us great facilities for collaborative work and discussions. Thanks to all 27 attendees who arrived! Present were many core developers and new contributors interested in MariaDB development […]
READ MOREDeveloper tip: test MariaDB install/upgrade quickly with Docker
Here is a quick tip for any developer who might want to test if the latest development version of MariaDB installs/upgrades. Traditionally, developers seem to have a bunch of virtual machines lying around which they use to test MariaDB installation and upgrade related things. Snapshotting virtual images, keeping them up-to-date, starting, stopping etc. takes a […]
READ MORE2018-2 Developers Unconference in Finland
This announcement is also available in Finnish. Katso myös suomenkielinen ilmoitus tapahtumasta! We are happy to announce that the 2nd and final MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2018 will take place in Tampere, Finland during the last week of June: 26 June – New Contributor Day 27–28 June –Developers Unconference 29 June – Patch review day […]
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The first MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2018 will be our second meetup in New York City, and will be taking place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 February. The event is free to attend and you can join for the whole time, or as little time as you wish. The schedule of this unconference is […]
READ MOREProtected branches – ensuring code quality in git
In order to ensure that new (or changed) code does not break anything, there is an extensive test suite that is run to catch regressions during MariaDB Server development. Developers are expected to run the test suite locally and, after pushing the code to the remote repository, also check that the more extensive tests run […]
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