MySQL Shell is a command-line shell for MySQL Server that has the capability for
interactive and batch code execution.  It also offers a wealth of APIs that make it easier and more efficient to work with and manage MySQL servers. In 8.0.13, we made an effort to make those APIs easily accessible straight from the command line.…

Fast, granular, reliable ROI on ad performance was our bugle call to build Euclid, Uber’s in-house marketing platform. Early this year, Euclid replaced a legacy system, which processed ROI data somewhat manually as it struggled to keep up with Uber’s …

The post Designing Euclid to Make Uber Engineering Marketing Savvy appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Sometimes we have apis implemented in our application and there are different levels at which these can be tested.

1. Unit tested at model level to check the logic is working fine
2. Tested at API call level to ascertain whether all the apis as expected are working and are returning data as expected.


Today, we will be learning how to test APIs in CodeIgniter 2.x version using phpunit and Guzzle Http client.

Basically Guzzle Http client is a client used to make http client requests.

Ref: https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle

"Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP …

I really like Amazon.com and I have been a Prime member for several years. Along with millions of different items for sale, Amazon has an affiliate program, where you can earn money advertising products on your web site. When a visitor to your site clicks on a link and orders a product from Amazon, you earn a small commission on the total sale. As an affiliate, you have access to Amazon’s Product Advertising API for obtaining product information. But, you can use this information for many other purposes.

The Amazon API is like most other API’s, and their API web site provides you with code examples and explains how it all works. I am going to show you how a Perl program which you can use to access the API data and store it in a …

The client library — libmysqlclient — is part of the same source code repository as the server. It comes both as a dynamic link library (.so), also called a shared library, and as a static link library (.a). During the 5.7 development cycle, we’ve made several improvements to the library, which has resulted in a bump from ABI version 18 to version 20.…

The client library — libmysqlclient — is part of the same source code repository as the server. It comes both as a dynamic link library (.so), also called a shared library, and as a static link library (.a). During the 5.7 development cycle, we’ve made several improvements to the library, which has resulted in a bump from ABI version 18 to version 20.…

Originally Posted by Adam Bird

There needed to be a better way for agents in Zendesk to track the tasks that had been assigned them. Using the Cronofy calendar API we created an app that keeps those assignments synchronized with the agent’s calendar.

This post shares our learnings from interacting with the Zendesk API, hopefully to help you with your own Zendesk project.

The Ruby source code for our integration is also available.

When a Ticket is a Task

Tickets are the core entity in the Zendesk domain. Tasks are just Tickets of type : ‘task’. This gives them an additional attribute due_at.

We also need to track the status of the ticket to know when it’s …

Sun of database technologies is shining through the cloud technology. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and various other databases are bringing forth some nifty offerings and this Log Buffer Edition covers some of them.

Oracle:

• How to create your own Oracle database merge patch.
• Finally the work of a database designer will be recognized! Oracle has announced the Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards.
• Oracle Documents Cloud Service R4: Why You Should Seriously Consider It for Your Enterprise.
• Mixing Servers in a Server …

I was surprised by the recent announcement that MySQL are going to start to conceal the hidden function calls in their C connector. Surprised because although this is great news I had expected them to do this years ago. Working for HP's Advanced Technology Group I realise I take such things for granted. For this blog post I'm going to talk about why it is important and how to do it.

So, when you create a dynamic library in C the default thing that happens is every function call in that library effectively becomes a potential API call. Whether you document every single function or not to make it official API is up to you but I suspect in 99.99% of cases there are private functions you don't want users to mess with. Additionally holding the symbol information for every function so that you can link your application to it takes a …

I recently had to do some customer work involving the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin and would like to share my experience in this post.

Auditing user activity in MySQL  has traditionally been challenging. Most data can be obtained from the slow or general log, but this involves a lot of data you don’t need too, and isn’t flexible at all. The specific problem of logging failed connection attempts has been discussed on a previous post in our blog.

Starting with 5.1, the new plugin API gives us more flexibility by allowing users to extend the server’s functionality with their own code, and this is what the McAffee plugin does.

Installation and …