Coding and decoding crash dump handlers

8 years ago

All software has bugs. Even if you could possibly write the perfect bug free software all the layers down have…

Correcting MariaDB ColumnStore Benchmarks

8 years ago

With MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 Beta now released I quickly checked Twitter today to see what the response so far has…

How MariaDB ColumnStore’s filenames work

8 years ago

Unlike most storage engines, MariaDB ColumnStore does not store its data files in the datadir. Instead these are stored in…

Tech job interviews are broken

8 years ago

I have a friend who was hit by a workforce reduction at a company I used to work at (as…

Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump

8 years ago

Sometimes network protocols don't entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way…

Part of my history inside InfiniDB/ColumnStore

8 years ago

Several years ago there was a fork of the unreleased MySQL 6.0 called Drizzle. It was designed to be a…

Linux tools: silver searcher

8 years ago

After my previous post about ack a Twitter follower, Nick Morrott, pointed out that there is a potentially better tool…

Linux tools: ack and memleakx

8 years ago

My day job requires me to spend a lot of time in Linux terminals, hammering away at MariaDB ColumnStore to…

Building BLOBs in MariaDB ColumnStore

8 years ago

My team and I are working on finalizing the feature set for MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 right now and I wanted…

My view on Flatpak/Snap packages

8 years ago

There has been a lot of talk in the Open Source world about universal package formats. Specifically the big two,…