As last year, we will take advantage of the mass presence of our engineers during FOSDEM to organize a MySQL Day once again.
The Agenda is not yet known, but save the date and schedule your trip to Brussels keeping in mind that Friday February 2nd 2018, there will be a full day dedicated to MySQL !
More to come soon but don’t forget to register !
FOSDEM 2017 is over, I brought back home the flu…. but hopefully not only !
Indeed this 2017 edition was very rewarding. We started our FOSDEM with a “fringe” : pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day where we highlighted MySQL 8.0 new features and hosted some talks from MySQL friends.
This first edition of the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day was a great success. We had up to 70 attendees! I would like to thanks all the speakers: Morgan Tocker, Bernt Marius Johnsen, Øystein Grøvlen, Kenny Gryp, Jean-François Gagné, Dag H. Wanvik, …
[Read more]Let’s finish these pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day Sessions reviews with Kenny Gryp‘s talk on MySQL Group Replication.
Kenny is working at Percona as MySQL Practice Manager.
Group Replication went Generally Available end of 2016, it introduces a (virtually) ‘synchronous’ active:active multi-master replication, in addition to asynchronous and semi-synchronous replication, the latter 2 being available in in MySQL for longtime.
As with any new feature, and especially with introducing
active:active multi-master replication, it takes a while before
companies are adopting the software in production database
environment.
For example, even though MySQL 5.7 has been GA for more than a
year, adoption is only starting to increase recently.
We can, and should, expect the same from Group …
[Read more]One of the talk will replaced in the schedule by a panel discussion moderated by Morgan Tocker on MySQL Group Replication & MySQL 8.0.
The panel list will be composed of
Kenny GrypRené CannaòØystein GrøvlenMark LeithFrédéric Descamps
These experts will answer questions from Morgan and from the audience.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to ask your questions and participate to this discussion about MySQL.
The schedule:
| Start | End | Event | Speaker | Company | Topic |
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| 09:30 | 10:00 | … |
Let’s finish this pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day Sessions review week with Norvald Ryeng‘s talk on MySQL 8.0 and GIS.
As you know pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day will take place on Friday February 3rd in Brussels. During this day dedicated to MySQL and focusing on 8.0, Norvald will be on stage at 16.50 to check if you are ready for MySQL 8.0’s GIS implementation.
Many great things are happening to GIS in MySQL 8.0. But in order to move forward, we also have to break legacy behavior. What will change? How? Why? And what can I do to avoid problems when I upgrade?
Join Norvald for a tour of changes and recommendations that you
can start following today to make your data and applications
ready for the future.
If …
Today I will present the unique ProxySQL session of the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day. Alkin Tezuysal will share with the audience ProxySQL Use Case Scenarios
Alkin is Senior Technical Manager at Percona and has extensive experience in enterprise relational databases working in various sectors for large corporations. With more then 20 years of industry experience he has acquired skills for managing large projects from ground up to production. For the past six years he’s been focusing on e-commerce, SaaS and MySQL technologies. He managed and architected database topologies for high volume site at eBay Intl. He has several years of experience on 24X7 support and operational tasks as well as improving …
[Read more]Let’s continue the review of the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day‘s schedule. Today’s session is the one of Sveta Smirnova: What you wanted to know about your MySQL Server instance, but could not find using internal instrumentation only
Sveta Smirnova works as MySQL Support engineer since year 2006, she is also author of book “MySQL Troubleshooting” and author of JSON UDF functions for MySQL. In years 2006 – 2015 she worked in Bugs Analysis MySQL Support Group in MySQL AB, then Sun, then Oracle. In March 2015 Sveta joined Support Team in Percona. In years 2012-2015 she worked on bugs priority. She was also Support representative in MySQL Backup Development Team. She …
[Read more]On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.
Today we will review Dag H. Wanvik‘s session. Dag is spending most of his time implementing Windows Functions to MySQL.
Dag H. Wanvik is a senior MySQL developer for Oracle. Before he did Derby/Java DB development for Oracle/Apache Foundation and he is a Derby committer. He last co-authored JSON support for MySQL 5.7. In his previous existence Dag worked on several compilers and HA distributed data base systems.
The title of his session is MySQL 8.0: Window functions – finally!
Dag will share is current work on …
[Read more]On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.
Today’s highlighted sessions are the one of Jean-Françcois
Gagné, from Booking.com:
Jean-François is working on growing the MySQL/MariaDB installations in Booking.com since he joined in …
[Read more]On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.
Today’s highlighted sessions are the one of Øystein Grøvlen:
Øystein is Senior Principal Software Engineer in the MySQL group at Oracle, where he works on the MySQL Query Optimizer.
Dr. Grøvlen has a PhD in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Before joining the MySQL team, he was a contributor on the Apache …
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