Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
What a long, packed week! Spent most of it at Open Source Summit North America, while still enjoying the myriad phone calls and meetings you have as a Perconian. In addition to two talks, I also gave a webinar this week on the differences between MySQL and MariaDB (I’ll post a blog Q&A in the near future).
Percona Live Europe Dublin
Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? If no, what’s keeping you from doing so?
In addition, I think it’s definitely worth registering for the community dinner. You can hang out with other like-minded folks, and see the lightning talks (we may announce more as time gets closer).
See what the MySQL Team will speak about at Percona Live Dublin. You’ll notice that a few of the releases I mention below have Percona Live Europe talks associated with them.
Releases
- gh-ost 1.0.42 released: JSON support, optimizations – in addition to the release, the little hint that GitHub itself is powered by MySQL 5.7 in production is great news
- orchestrator 3.0.2 GA released: raft consensus, SQLite
- ProxySQL 1.4.2 now comes with experimental native clustering
- Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.7-1.8, now with packages for Debian 9
Link List
- The List of Replication Defaults That Have Changed in 8.0.2
- Do you use Vitess? Do you know that it is planning to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation? (of course, we’re covering this with two talks at Percona Live Europe Dublin – one by a user, Slack, and the other by the people behind Vitess, YouTube/Google).
- Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency – this is long, but so very relevant and filled with lots of granular detail
- A FAQ by Citus Data: Databases and Distributed Deadlocks
- Better Database Migrations in Postgres – also worth using the tool Strong Migrations.
Feedback
On a somber note, former Perconian and all round great community member, Jaakko Pesonen passed away. Shlomi Noach commented online: Remembering Jaakko Pesonen.
I look forward to feedback/tips via e-mail at [email protected] or on Twitter @bytebot.
About the Author
Colin CharlesColin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team for MariaDB Server in 2009, worked in MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within many open source communities, and has spoken on the conference circuit.
