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MySQL InnoDB Tablespace Encryption
MySQL Tablespace Encryption is relatively simple to set up. You have to be using MySQL 5.7, innodb_file_per_table https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-tablespace-encryption.html The MySQL documentation covers everything you need to set this up: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/keyring.html…
Dynimize: The Big Picture
In a nutshell, the purpose of Dynimize is to help further the progress of general purpose computing performance. This progress has provided society with a steady stream of new computing…
Dynimize + MySQL Cross-Microarchitecture Analysis
In this blog post I will discuss how the Dynimize cross microarchitecture performance results were obtained, followed by an analysis of these results. You can download the scripts to generate…
Measuring CPU stall reductions from Dynimize
Duration: 30 min Level: Intermediate In this tutorial we are going to install and experiment with Dynimize using MySQL running the Sysbench OLTP benchmark. We also play around with…
Hacking a box of 240×320 displays with the ESP8266
For the last few days, I have been playing with some small displays we have lying around in Labitat. We have ninety-odd of them from an old donation, and I…
Hacking a box of 240×320 displays with the ESP8266
For the last few days, I have been playing with some small displays we have lying around in Labitat. We have ninety-odd of them from an old donation, and I…
MariaDB 10.2 GA released with several advanced features
MariaDB 10.2.6 GA is now released. It’s a release where we have concentrated on adding new advanced features to MariaDB The most noteworthy ones are: Windows Functions gives you the…
MariaDB 10.2 GA released with several advanced features
MariaDB 10.2.6 GA is now released. It’s a release where we have concentrated on adding new advanced features to MariaDB The most noteworthy ones are: Windows Functions gives you the…
Improving replication with multiple storage engines
New MariaDB/MySQL storage engines such as MyRocks and TokuDB have renewed interest in using engines other than InnoDB. This is great, but also presents new challenges. In this article, I…
Improving replication with multiple storage engines
New MariaDB/MySQL storage engines such as MyRocks and TokuDB have renewed interest in using engines other than InnoDB. This is great, but also presents new challenges. In this article, I…
MySQL and SSL/TLS Performance
In conversations about SSL/TLS people often say that they either don’t need TLS because they trust their network or they say it is too slow to be used in production.…
MySQL and SSL/TLS Performance
In conversations about SSL/TLS people often say that they either don’t need TLS because they trust their network or they say it is too slow to be used in production.…
MariaDB 10.3-alpha released
While most of the MariaDB developers have been working hard on getting MariaDB 10.2 out as GA, a small team, including me, has been working on the next release, MariaDB…
MariaDB 10.3-alpha released
While most of the MariaDB developers have been working hard on getting MariaDB 10.2 out as GA, a small team, including me, has been working on the next release, MariaDB…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 6: Loose ends
Backup traffic After securing application-to-database and replication traffic, you should also do the same for backup traffic. If you use Percona XtraBackup with streaming than you should use SSH to…