wolfgang gassler

I joined the Urlaub im Userspace podcast to celebrate 30 years of MySQL and to talk about why it’s still one of the most relevant databases today.

Why do conflicts often arise between Data Scientists and Developers?

In episode 101 of Happy Bootstrapping, Andreas Lehr spoke with Matthias Endler and me about Open Podcast, an open-source analytics tool for podcasts.

Open Source contributions go beyond consumption—they’re about giving back, growing professionally, and unlocking career opportunities.

Servant Leadership is a people-first approach that fosters team growth through empathy and support while maintaining professional boundaries.

How to get hardware acceleration on Fedora 37 with AMD Radeon 680M to e.g. use DaVinci Resolve and Shotcut

This is a story about the struggles of adding a single iptables rule to ansible, which led to a night of insomnia and a series of incorrect assumptions about the root cause.

My top 5 lessons learned from 20 years in a volunteer fire department, and how it helped me to shape the culture and motivate teams in my job as an engineering manager.

Simple if you know how to do it: Preventing Docker (Swarm) from opening ports to the outer world on Debian by overwriting the Docker network magic using iptables and nftables.

It took me 10 years to finish my PhD, so I would assume my procrastination skills are not that bad ;) … fortunately, nowadays, I use some basic rules to fight procrastination and have become quite efficient with it.

Note to myself: do not delete your docker swarm cluster when using docker secrets for your docker based databases ;) - In case you do, you have to reset the passwords in the docker databases.

Do you need a non-blocking docker based backup solution for your MySQL or MariaDB container?

High quality speakers and presentations at the sensemaker meetup about smart city projects, smart railway infrastructure and predictive maintenance, and new ways of visualizing data in wakable 3D environments.

I have used the German keyboard for more than two decades and decided to switch to the English keyboard.

The idea was quite simple: I wanted to forward alarm emails to a Slack channel of our voluntary firefighter department, using Mailgun, Google Cloud Functions, and the Slack API…quite simple, right?

What do “goto” and “hey guys” have in common?