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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.06]

Ronald Bradford
February 7, 2024

MySQL Belgian Days 2024 and FOSDEM 2024 In this past week, I’ve been able not just to read or watch digital content online but to meet people in person. In Brussels, first at the MySQL Belgian Days 2024 event, followed by FOSDEM 2024 .

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Understanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities

Ronald Bradford
May 13, 2021

The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the High Availability (HA) capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ. In this presentation I discuss the different capabilities and HA configurations with RDS Aurora including:

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MySQL Data Security Risk Assessment presentation

Ronald Bradford
July 1, 2018

Securing your data is only as good as your weakest link. A clear-text password in a file or history file, shared privileges between test and production or open sudo access when you can connect as an unprivileged user all are security flaws.

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Get your Oslo swag in Austin

Ronald Bradford
March 31, 2016

Hot of the press are our Oslo stickers for the Austin event. Be sure to track down an Oslo core, answer the magic question and add this to your conference swag.

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Percona Live Presentation: MySQL Security Essentials

Ronald Bradford
April 21, 2015

The slides for my MySQL Security Essentials presentation at Percona Live 2015 MySQL Conference and Expo are now available. In this presentation I discuss just how insecure legacy versions of MySQL are and what are the essential requirements for securing your installation on disk, via network and with user privileges.