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MySQL Keynote at Oracle Open World 2016
Tomas Ulin made a number of key announcements at this year’s State of the Dolphin and Customer Experiences keynote. MySQL Public Cloud, MySQL 8.0 DMR, MySQL InnoDB Cluster, MySQL Group Replication (RC).
A Brief History of Container Technology
The following is the text from a presentation slide at Oracle Open World 2016. While Docker has been playing a key role in adoption of the Linux container Technology, the did not invent the concept of containers.
The Legacy Dilemma
Organizations are rapidly developing new software applications to meet the need to consume ever increasing digital content and maintain market share in a given field. These newly developed applications cover a wide range of needs from advanced data analytics, to mobile applications, to personalized recommendation engines.
The agile software development lifecycle responsibility
The eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology places emphasis on a number of core principles for agile software development. These include (and are not limited to) the planning game, short and frequent iterations, testing, frequent refactoring, continuous integration, ownership and standards.
Q: Does MySQL support ACID? A: Yes
I was recently asked this question by an experienced academic at the NY Oracle Users Group event I presented at. Does MySQL support ACID? (ACID is a set of properties essential for a relational database to perform transactions , i.
Do you control your database outages?
Working with a client last week I noted in my analysis, “The mysql server was restarted on Thursday and so the [updated] my.cnf settings seems current”. This occurred between starting my analysis on Wednesday and delivering my findings on Friday.
Understanding the MySQL Release Cadence
Download PDF Presentation At the recent New York Oracle Users Group summer general meeting I gave a presentation to the Oracle community on the MySQL product release cycle. Details included:
Utilizing OpenStack Trove DBaaS for deployment management
Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud. Trove provides a RESTful API interface that is same regardless of the type of database.
Are you a responsible developer?
What is a good example of individual developer responsibility? Here is just one example. A developer downloads a copy of the core production database to their own development laptop. Why? Because it’s easy to work with real data, and it’s hard to consider building applicable test data that all engineers can utilize.
Understanding the DBaaS capability for your organization
As your organization transforms to embrace the wealth of digital information that is becoming available, the capability to store, manage and consume this data in any given format or product becomes an increasing burden for operations.
Expired MySQL passwords
I was surprised to find on one of my websites the message “Connect failed: Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.
Digital transformation strategies
“The cosmos is complex, the cloud does not have to be”. This quote by Ben Amaba , Worldwide Executive at IBM Cloud, early in his presentation at the Performance without Limits 3.
Understanding the Oslo Libraries
Underpinning all of the OpenStack projects including Nova, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon, Heat, Trove, Murano and others is a set of core common libraries that provide a consistent, highly tested and compatible feature set.
are you running KVM or QEMU launched instances?
A recent operators mailing list thread asked this question regarding the OpenStack user survey results of April 2016 (See page 39). As I verified my own local multi-node devstack dedicated H/W environment with varying commands, I initially came across the following error (which later was found to be misleading).