At our September 2016 New York City MySQL Meetup was a demonstration of how to implement role-based security in MySQL using Hexatier. In addition, several other important security features demonstrated included role based dynamic data masking down to a per column level and full statement auditing.
Thanks to Scott Unrick, Lead Database Administrator at Teladoc for the great presentation. Slides are available here.
Hexatier – MySQL Role-based Security & Data Masking from …
[Read more]The schedule to Percona Live Europe 2016 is being finalized. It should be published soon, and it will include 3 hour and 6 hour tutorials, regular 50-minute talks, and shorter 25-minutes talks. It will not include, however, the lightning talks, a session comprising several 5-minute talks, and they are missing from the initial schedule for two reasons:
Unlike in previous editions, though, the lightning talks will …
[Read more]The main schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference is available. Almost everything has been defined. There are tutorials and plenty of sessions waiting for conference attendees.
One thing that is still undefined is the session of lightning talks. The …
[Read more]This is a quick post only indirectly related to the series of articles about Docker that I have written recently.
Yesterday I was giving a presentation about Docker in Buenos Aires, and as usual I included a long live demo. Almost all went as expected. There was one step that I tried some time ago, and had always worked well, but when I tried to repeat it on stage, it failed miserably:
$ docker run -d --name mybox -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret mysql/mysql-server …[Read more]
On Percona Live! Amsterdam 2015 we had a talk with Peter Boros about GTID replication.
Here are the slides.
At our August meetup, our guest Calvin Sun gave a presentation on life @ Twitter. Some of the details of his presentation included:
Download Introduction Slides …
In this presentation on High Performance SQL and NoSQL to the New York Web Performance Meetup I use the simple analogy of applying the same techniques used in Web Performance Optimization (WPO) to your data path (SQL or NoSQL) performance.
This presentation provides examples for 5 of the most common WPO optimizations and how to apply this to your applications access to data:
This presentation was recorded. A video link …
[Read more]Thank you to Jon Day and Jaimee Swiderski from MariaDB for the organization and presentation of “MaxScale is now GA” to our New York MySQL meetup group.
For those that are not familiar with MaxScale in the MySQL ecosystem, from the initial slides:
What is MaxScale?
The simple answer is a classical proxy that sits between the
database clients and servers forwarding requests and
responses.
The more detailed answer is a proxy platform for building highly
tailored and …
This presentation from the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference in Latin America provides my experiences of the most common problems managing MySQL Operations in general with customers, and a number of current problems experienced recently.
Many consider the ease of installation and use of MySQL as a selling point, however MySQL installation is not install and forget. It sounds simple, however there are many important decisions that have long lasting effects. The choice of version, choice of repo, choice of variant is just the beginning.
The appropriate configuration before any application uses the MySQL instance is also …
[Read more]MySQL Fabric and 5.7 will be the topics of presentations this Thursday (5/22) at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. Lee Stigile is presenting: What’s new in MySQL 5.7, and Sastry Vendantam is presenting MySQL Fabric.
Agenda is as follows:
5:00-5:30 Networking/Socialize over food and drinks
5:30-6:00 Lee will present MySQL 5.7
6:00-6:30 Sastry will present Fabric
6:30-7:00 Q&A and Socialize over food and drinks
Here is the link to register/RSVP
Plug and Play Tech Center
Thursday, May 22, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
440 N Wolfe Rd
Sunnyvale, CA 94085