Newsletter sent on 17th February 2020
Good Monday morning from London, Europe.
Welcome (back) to the Federico-Razzoli.com newsletter: updates, events and insights from the open source database world, in your mailbox every Monday morning.
Events
Next most interesting events I am aware of:
- MariaDB Open Works – May 4-6, New York City
- Percona Live May 18-20 – Austin, Texas.
I will give a talk entitled How MySQL can boost (or will) your web application at three different events in the UK:
- Women Who Code London, February 20, 2020
- PHP Oxford meetup, February 26, 2020
- PHP & Databases: How MySQL can boost (or kill) your PHP application, March 16, 2020
Federico-Razzoli.com contents
This week I published an article for MariaDB DBAs – but actually it could also be useful for Db2, SQL Server and Oracle DBAs, though the terminology and syntax are a bit different. Please let me know your thoughts about the ideas I provide in the article. Your comments make my articles better!
Articles from the web
Technical
- An Introduction to Database Sharding
- Describing replication – A brief overview of replication methods and the benefits of MongoDB replication
- TiDB in the Browser: Running a Golang Database on WebAssembly
- Cassandra: How to reduce vnodes without downtime (mailing list discussion)
IT and Database strategy
- Is it time for an intervention on behalf of DBAs? – A wise warning about the importance of Database Administrators and their unbearable workloads
- How do you replace an initial CTO at a 5-6 person startup if you’re being hired as the “rockstar” engineer? – Nice question on Quora
Business
- Competing against free is really hard – Podcast, interview to Tim Callaghan
- 6 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Big Project
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Hope this was useful!
Federico Razzoli