Mozilla IT & Operations
The DB news this week is being posted a day early, because in about 2 hours I will be leaving to fly to Finland, where I will be speaking at the Harmony conference next week. This week has been one of organization, and we were able to get a lot done! Added a monitoring check… Read more
Last week I did not post one of these, because I was at Professional IT Community Conference (PICC) 2012; in New Brunswick, NJ. This is my third year in a row speaking and attending the conference, and it is always a great time. I did a session on MySQL Security (PDF slides) and another on… Read more
Interestingly, I have given the presentation on MySQL and Security at least 4 times in the past 6 weeks* and it was only last night, with the sharp minds at Baron’s Central Virginia MySQL Meetup Group (sadly Baron was not there!), that someone asked about when encryption happens in the MySQL handshake. We had been… Read more
Reddit takes SQL injection very seriously. How seriously? Check their headers: scabral-07890:~ scabral$ curl –head www.reddit.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Set-Cookie: reddit_first=%7B%22organic_pos%22%3A%201%2C%20%22firsttime%22%3A%20%22first%22%7D; Domain=reddit.com; expires=Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:59:59 GMT; Path=/ Server: ‘; DROP TABLE servertypes; — Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:20 GMT Connection: keep-alive scabral-07890:~ scabral$ A colleague at PICC showed me… Read more
I’m at the Professional IT Community Conference, aka PICC, for the first day. I am taking Pulling Strings with Puppet: A Gentle Introduction by Thomas Uphill of the Institute for Advanced Study and Benjamin Rose – Princeton University…here are my notes! Slides available at http://goo.gl/Swg4G example files http://ramblings.narrabills.com/Talks/puppet-picc.tar.bz2 What is puppet? It’s a language –… Read more
Happy Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you! We are still busy with data center moves! Only two more to go through, until we are all done. Twice this week, people have come to me, frantically saying “This database is moving NEXT WEEK and I need it migrated! Help!” and in both instances… Read more
A few weeks ago was the Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo. As in years past, I have recorded videos. Scroll down to see the 15 videos I am able to share. Very special thanks go to my fellow Mozillian espressive of the Mozilla WebDev team who was generous enough to make this look very… Read more
I was checking out my schedule as I prepared to submit some talks to Percona Live: NYC, when I noticed that it conflicts with Oracle OpenWorld, and starts the day after MySQL Connect finishes. The dates for Oracle OpenWorld were announced at the end of last year’s OpenWorld, so Percona has made a bold statement… Read more
In the next 6 weeks or so, I will be doing a bunch of speaking. You can come see me if you will be in the New York City metro area (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Charlottesville, Virginia; near Helsinki, Finland and Charlotte, North Carolina. I will be speaking at the Professional IT Community Conference about… Read more
It has been 4 weeks since I last posted the goings-on for Mozilla DBs. April is always a crazy month because of the annual MySQL conference (Some great pics here). This year it was the Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo. And of course as soon as I get caught up from the conference, I… Read more
