Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw representation from Oracle MySQL, MariaDB Corporation, Pythian, and Percona. Long-time organizer Ivan Zoratti has also handed off the baton to Maria Luisa Raviol, and going forward she will ensure meetups are at least once per quarter. It was a real pleasure to see MySQL Community Manager Dave Stokes at the event, too.
A new book to read: AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud. There is coverage of RDS, from the standpoint of an example application stack as well as backups.
A most interesting tweet from the Chief Marketing Officer of MongoDB, Meagen Eisenberg, of an ad on a billboard: friend’s don’t let friends use relational databases.
Releases
- MariaDB 10.1.36 which fixes a handful of regressions.
- An experimental build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0
- Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-23 – an alpha quality feature, “it is possible to encrypt all data in the InnoDB system tablespace and in the parallel double write buffer”. For MyRocks users, lots of new variables exposing new features.
- Puppet-ProxySQL 2.0.0 – good way to deploy ProxySQL with Puppet by Matthias Crauwels.
- TimescaleDB 1.0: The first enterprise-ready time-series database to support full SQL and scale– announcement packed with a lot of information. Built on PostgreSQL. They have over 1 million downloads!
Link List
- Migrating PostgreSQL standalone instance to Aurora (Amazon RDS)
- Cloud Foundry survey finds top enterprise languages – no surprise it leads with Java and then JavaScript. The report is an easy read.
- Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions – Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned fame, tells us why serverless applications are extremely cost-effective. The money quote, “It’s costing me 2.6c per day to support 141M monthly queries of 517M records.”
- Select Star SQL is an interactive book which aims to be the best place on the internet for learning SQL.
- Let’s Encrypt at Scale
- Amazon Aurora – Seamless Planned Failover with ProxySQL
Industry Updates
- Catalyst IT Australia acquires Open Query – Arjen Lentz is a long-time MySQL community member, and he ran his company for the last 11 years pre-acquisition. Congratulations!
- Elastic files for IPO – the financials are solid, *”Our revenue was $159.9 million and $88.2 million in fiscal 2018 and 2017, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 81% for fiscal 2018.” The filing is worth reading.
- New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round – total raised now $173 million, valuing the company at $1.3 billion. Some of their competitors have been purchased recently, VictorOps by Splunk for $120 million and OpsGenie by Atlassian for $295 million. There are not many independents left in this space beyond PagerDuty and xMatters(who recently picked up Series D financing, total raised $96.5 million).
- PingCap raises $50m in Series C funding. They are behind TiDB and TiKV. Raised a total of $72 million, and this is a significant increase from the $15m Series B raise in June 2017!
- Tague Griffith has departed Redis Labs where he was Head of Developer Advocacy and is now at Google.
- Manyi Lu who has been in the MySQL world for a very long time, leading much of the changes in the MySQL optimizer, who was most recently Director of Software Development at Oracle has departed to be a Senior Director at Alicloud.
Upcoming Appearances
- db tech showcase Tokyo 2018 – 19-21 September 2018
- Open Source Summit Europe 2018 – 22-24 October 2018
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