Databases

LinuxJedi’s Recent Videos

I haven't been writing a lot of content lately. This is in part me being involved in several videos which…

4 years ago

Community vs Ecosystem

One of the most powerful and important things about Open Source software is that it brings people together to work…

4 years ago

How I Interview Remote Engineering Candidates

Several of my friends in tech are having a hard time in their career due to everything going on in…

4 years ago

Fixing an OpenSSL issue with Curl and Autotools

One project I created at MariaDB is libMariaS3 [source, documentation]. It is a lightweight simple LGPL licensed API to access…

5 years ago

My Open Source projects that still live on

I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple…

5 years ago

MariaDB source visualisation with Gource

Gource is a tool which can take a source code tree and create beautiful visualisations out of it. I've used…

7 years ago

Coding and decoding crash dump handlers

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

7 years ago

Correcting MariaDB ColumnStore Benchmarks

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

7 years ago

How MariaDB ColumnStore’s filenames work

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

7 years ago

Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump

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

7 years ago