Tag: Fosdem

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. My first experience of a Postgres day, where people talk postgreSQL all day. My day started very early – I left home at 05:15 and arrived in Brussels at 09:10. Unfortunately, due to the train schedules (where trains seem to wake up later than I do) I arrived a bit late for the opening talk by Magnus Hagander. Magnus is one of the core members of the PostgreSQL infrastructure team, developer and comitter in the Global development group. And then, straight into the sessions in a packed room, fortunately there was a seat available. Session 1: Hosted ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; What a great event ! I got very positive feedback for this extended preFOSDEM MySQL Day 2020. Before my summary, I wanted to thank again all speakers and attendees. Without you this event won’t even exist. And thank you to ICAB for hosting us yet another time ! As you may know, we had 2 parallel tracks for 2 consecutive days. We had very valuable technical content from the MySQL developers and also from the external community members who talked about their favorite database. There was a large interest in MySQL NDB Cluster and ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi graph gang, For this week’s video we have Lju Lazarevic’s presentation about versioning graphs from the NODES 2019 conference. We have the videos from the FOSDEM Graph Room, lots of articles about Neo4j 4.0’s schema-based access control, and a Human Genes Graph. And finally, I created a learnt how to use a tool called Streamlit to build a single page web application around the UK Charts QuickGraph. Mark, Karin, and the Developer Relations team This week’s featured Neo4j Community member is Vigneswaren Krishnamoorthy, Product Manager at IFCA MSC BHD. Vigneswaren Krishnamoorthy ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frazer Clement; My post-FOSDEM detox has started - despite preparing by reading some survival guides, I hadn't really fathomed the variety and quantity (and quality) of beer that would flow over four days.  On reflection however, the beer flow has been far exceeded by the flow of tech content and conversation.On Thursday and Friday I attended the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days fringe event, where there were two tracks of talks and tutorials on MySQL including sessions on : - MySQL Server simplification - MySQL replication tooling improvements - Configuring group replication - Troubleshooting group replication - Using DNS for loadbalancing and failover - ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Mikael Ronström; INTERVIEW: Bernd Ocklin at Pre FOSDEM MySQL Day 2020 in BrusselsInterview ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; A sold out, two-day event with over 30 sessions on various aspects of MySQL is a tough thing to organize and accomplish. But the MySQL pre-FOSDEM Days was an amazing success. If you missed this event then you really missed two full days of presentations by MySQL engineers and subject matter experts from the MySQL Community.  It all started on Thursday January 30th with Geir Hoydalsvik talking about Simplifying MySQL which not a simple talk.  Big efforts are being made to clean up and modernize the MySQL Server Core code.  Work is being undertaken ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; When I tell people that they can use MySQL without SQL they tend to be skeptical.  But with the MySQL Document Store you can do just that with a new NoSQL API and in this case there is no structured query language.pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days (which is sold out and there is a waiting list) is my tutorial on using the Document Store.  Those in my session will be able to see how to use the MySQL Shell (mysqlsh) to connect to a MySQL server and save data without have to do the many things a ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; There are certain things in life that you can count on … FOSDEM is back in town, and together with that a new pre-FOSDEM MySQL day, actually 2 days this year! And of course, we definitely have not forgotten … the MySQL Community dinner! We continue the by now well known tradition of dining together in style with members from all over the community, and invite you to the ICAB venue (the same location as where the pre-FOSDEM MySQL days are being held. Book your tickets now!!! The listed ticket price includes a selection of ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe PostgreSQL Project is present with a booth at FOSDEM ever since 2007. Since 2008 we organize a Devroom, since 2013 we have our own PGDay on the Friday before FOSDEM. This year marks the 8th FOSDEM PGDay. This blog post presents useful information about the PGDay, the booth and Devroom at FOSDEM. When does the PGDay take place, and can I still attend? This year's FOSDEM PGDay takes place in the Hilton Brussels Grand Place. This is a single day, single track event with PostgreSQL talks. A registration is required, the event still has a few ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We held our second Contributor Summit the day before PuppetConf on September 22nd. This Contributor Summit featured two simultaneous all day tracks, one for module contributors and one for core contributors. Luke Kanies, founder and CEO of Puppet Labs, kicked off the jam-packed day welcoming everyone and announcing that the Contributor Summit attendees would nominate the winner of our new MVP: Most Valued Puppeteer Award. The MVP is a community-voted award for someone who has gone above and beyond in their contributions to the Puppet Community. Next, Puppet Labs’ product owners, Ryan Coleman ... Read More