Category: Development
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Running 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 multiple copies of MariaDB on one system, and run them in parallel while keeping them isolated from each other.
This is a very powerful technique […]
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MariaDB 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 working alongside him to get it feature complete (hopefully for our 10.4 version). We are glad that Teodor has chosen to present his work at […]
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Tampere 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 from all around the world. We had attendees all the way from Japan and India and also many from Finland and other European countries.
New […]
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Developer 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 lot of time and does not feel very convenient.
A much faster option would be to use pristine Docker images for every test. Docker images […]
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2018-2 Developers Unconference in Finland
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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2018 MariaDB Developers Unconference
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 being drafted in a public spreadsheet. Please add suggestions for sessions you would like to present or lead on this spreadsheet.
The venue is in […]
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Protected 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 on Travis CI and in particular Buildbot do not find any regressions either. However, sometimes developers are sloppy, make mistakes, don’t check the test results […]
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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)