Ronald Bradford - Data Architect, MySQL Expert, Author & Speaker on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker

I learned this week that 30+ years of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS ) experience still does not prepare yourself for the disappointment of working with organizations that use a RDBMS; MySQL specifically; have a released production product,…

There are reports that your website is down.

This week I was evaluating AWS RDS Proxy .

Test Driven Development (TDD) is an important principle for producing quality software.

In a greenfield environment you generally have the luxury to right any wrongs of any past tech debt.

As a data architect I always ensure that for any database schema change there a fully recoverable execution path.

Securing your data is only as good as your weakest link.

Prior to MySQL 5.7 client communications with a MySQL instance were unencrypted by default.

Giuseppe Maxia has provided some great MySQL docker images .

I came across this handy python script https://github.com/reorx/httpstat that provides a http response breakdown in text.

To focus on just one point for OTN appreciation day on October 11 2016 and to the benefit of all users of MySQL is to consider the extremely convenient and rich value of information available in the MySQL Performance Schema to understand what SQL queries…

Download Slides The second MySQL tutorial session at Oracle Open World was “MySQL Group Replication in a Nutshell” by MySQL Community Manager Frederic Descamps.

I was fortunate enough to give four presentations at the Percona Live 2016 event in Amsterdam.

MySQL 8.0.0 introduces three new miscellaneous UUID functions of IS_UUID(), UUID_TO_BIN() and BIN_TO_UUID() joining the UUID() (in 5.0) and UUID_SHORT() (in 5.1) functions.

The MySQL keynote at Oracle Open World 2016 announced the immediate availability of the MySQL Cloud Service, part of the larger Oracle Cloud offering.

One of the Monday tutorials at Oracle Open World was MySQL Operations in Docker.

Tomas Ulin made a number of key announcements at this year’s State of the Dolphin and Customer Experiences keynote.

The following is the text from a presentation slide at Oracle Open World 2016.

Organizations are rapidly developing new software applications to meet the need to consume ever increasing digital content and maintain market share in a given field.

The eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology places emphasis on a number of core principles for agile software development.

I was recently asked this question by an experienced academic at the NY Oracle Users Group event I presented at.

Working with a client last week I noted in my analysis, “The mysql server was restarted on Thursday and so the [updated] my.cnf settings seems current”.

Download PDF Presentation At the recent New York Oracle Users Group summer general meeting I gave a presentation to the Oracle community on the MySQL product release cycle.

Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud.

What is a good example of individual developer responsibility?

As your organization transforms to embrace the wealth of digital information that is becoming available, the capability to store, manage and consume this data in any given format or product becomes an increasing burden for operations.

I was surprised to find on one of my websites the message “Connect failed: Your password has expired.

“The cosmos is complex, the cloud does not have to be”.

Underpinning all of the OpenStack projects including Nova, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon, Heat, Trove, Murano and others is a set of core common libraries that provide a consistent, highly tested and compatible feature set.

A recent operators mailing list thread asked this question regarding the OpenStack user survey results of April 2016 (See page 39).

You have setup and installed devstack .

If you have a system with only 4GB of RAM, you need to assign at least 2.5GB (2560M) to a virtual machine to install devstack .

The following instructions assume you have a running Linux virtual machine that can support the installation of devstack to demonstrate a simple working OpenStack cloud.

As discussed in Setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox there are several other alternatives to defining an Ubuntu virtual machine.

Create a CentOS Virtual Machine (VM) NOTE: There are several different ways in creating a base VM CentOS image.

Hot of the press are our Oslo stickers for the Austin event.

As discussed , devstack enables a software developer to run a standalone minimal OpenStack cloud on a virtual machine (VM).

When using VirtualBox for my OpenStack development I always configure two network adapters for ease of development.

Download VirtualBox for your operating system VirtualBox is an open source virtualization product that will allow you to create virtual machines on a computer using Linux, Mac OS X or Windows.

This guide will enable the reader to install a minimal OpenStack cloud using devstack for the first time.

As a software developer or system architect that is interested in looking at the workings of OpenStack , devstack is one of several different ways to start a personal cloud using the current OpenStack code base .

OpenStack is a cloud computing software product that is the leading open source platform for creating cloud infrastructure.

As part of migrating Oslo Incubator code to graduated libraries I have come across several inactive OpenStack projects.

At Oracle Openworld this year, Oracle OpenStack Release 2 was announced.

The following presentation was given at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Latin America 2015 tour events in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.

This past week I have been the sole MySQL representative on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Latin America 2015 tour events in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.

My previous Ubuntu OpenStack setup has been using the Juno release.

The following outlines an approach of identifying and improving unit tests in an OpenStack project.

Following my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 it was time to become involved with contributing to OpenStack.

Following on from Installing Ubuntu OpenStack the following steps help you navigate around the single server installation, monitoring and debugging the installation process.