Sheeri
I grew up in the States. While growing up, I got interested in the country of Garistan. I was drawn to a country full hard-core passion for living a happy life. I studied the history and geography of Garistan, and … Continue reading
Sheeri
Open Database Camp was just over a week ago, Mar 16-17th at Harvard University, co-located with Northeast LinuxFest. We had a great lineup of speakers, and we have processed all 11 videos in record time! We got new video cameras … Continue reading
Derek Moore
Mozilla’s flagship datacenter, SCL3, underwent its first major stress test yesterday. Lucky for us, we had the advantage of knowing it was coming. The facility operators had scheduled significant electrical power maintenance which would result in the sequential shutdown of … Continue reading
Sheeri
I have had a lot of folks wanting to know when talks would be during Open Database Camp, and we had enough space in the schedule that we did not need to vote on talks, so I present the Open … Continue reading
Sheeri
Over at the OurSQL podcast, Gerry and I were inspired by the Percona blog post about MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 default variable values differences. We were going to do a show where we talked about that, but in researching that … Continue reading
Sheeri
At Confoo last week, I tried out a new presentation, called “Different MySQL Forks for Different Folks”. The idea was to explain the differences among all the forks – Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona and of course Oracle’s MySQL. But I did … Continue reading
Sheeri
Back in December in an IT strategy meeting, my boss came up with a great phrase – “keeping IT visibly relevant”. It sums up the long-standing problem most IT teams have in their companies – how can you make it … Continue reading