Unleashing Innovation Through Plugins

One of the corner stones in MariaDB Foundation’s mission is:

We strive to increase adoption by users and across use cases, platforms and means of deployment.

https://mariadb.org/about/

MariaDB Server plugins are definitely a prime “means of deployment” for server features. But a relatively neglected one so far. They have been around for many years. But, somehow, they have escaped the user’s focus. Why that happened is a very interesting topic. And one that I’d definitely like to hear your opinion on!

Which brings me to my main topic: How do we all change that?