I had my Time Warner cable installed yesterday, a rather painless process. Reported as having Internet speeds of 10MB down and 1/2 MB up, these were confirmed with speedtest.net
Installation – July 5
A day later – Jul 6
Building your first VillageSQL Extension with AI skills
This is a technical walkthrough of the vsql-extension-builder recently released May 28 at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 and found at https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-skills . Highlights Install VillageSQL pre-built binary first Install SDK with pre-built binary second Install the skill Run it with your AI tool The output can be found at https://github.
Why using production workloads over simulated workloads is critical
AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI.
Improving your MySQL Security Posture Presentation
At the MySQL BR Conference 2025 I had the opportunity to speak about Improving Your MySQL Security Posture. You can find a copy of my slides on my Presentations , and a Portugese (Brazil) translation.