Category: Industry Trends

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Simon Prickett. Redis University is pleased to announce the immediate availability of free, self-paced, on-demand online courses. A lot has changed in recent weeks, and many of us are now at home, perhaps a bit more than we’d like to be. To help make this shelter-in-place time as productive as possible, we figured this would be a great time to give the Redis community the chance to complete as many courses as you can, all at your own pace. Take as many courses as you like—just be sure to complete them before they close on May ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Itamar Haber. Earlier today, security firm TrendMicro published a blog post with findings from the company’s security researchers. The team had used Shodan, the popular search engine for internet-connected or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, to identify more than 8,000 unsecure Redis servers across various clouds. When left unsecured, such servers could be used by cybercriminals for nefarious purposes. A declining number of exposed Redis servers That number is substantial, but it demonstrates a constant, if not declining, number of exposed servers overall. About three years ago, I used the same method to count 9,916 such ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Burak Celebi. This is the first blog post for Hazelcast IMDG’s Blue/Green Deployments feature, which is the most recent member of the Enterprise edition.  “Blue/Green deployment” refers to a software technique used to reduce or even eliminate system downtime and the associated business risk by deploying two mirrored production environments referred to as “Blue” and “Green”.  In Hazelcast IMDG 3.12, we released a new Hazelcast Enterprise feature for Blue/Green deployments. It provides a client failover mechanism that allows for client connections to be rerouted to a different cluster without requiring a client network configuration update ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Analyst firm 451 Research has come up with new research that sees a bright future for HOAP – hybrid operational and analytical processing. The report is titled 451 Perspective: A HOAP-ful future for hybrid operational and analytical processing. This new type of processing has received several different names, from different analyst firms and consultancies: By any of these names, this new style of data processing – which unifies transactions and operational analytics, including many data warehousing-type functions – is widely believed to have a bright future. And MemSQL is right in the middle of ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. First, let me warn you that I am not a game developer. So this post, which has been rattling around in my head for a number of years now, is partly a look at how a theoretical game would work with Redis but also a metaphor to help readers understand how Redis works.  Phew!  With all that out of the way, let’s talk about implementing a game that is powered by Redis. We’re going to call this game Super Redis Brothers—it’s an action platformer connected to a central server. It stars Redisman, who needs ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Vladimir Schreiner. Tech conferences and meetups have been canceled or postponed across the world. To make the situation a little bit more pleasing for everybody who misses them, Hazelcast has started a series of virtual tech meetups. Please join us on Thursdays, starting April 2nd. Always at 3:30pm CET/ 7:30am PDT / 10:30am EDT / 2:30pm GMT. The list of topics: Streaming in the world of legacy applications (Vladimir Schreiner) Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 Join: https://hazelcast.com/resources/tech-talk-streaming-in-the-world-of-legacy-applications/ A practical introduction to CDC (Change Data Capture). Architecture, trade-offs, tooling, and demos. There are common themes when ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Guy Royse. Like many software engineers, I enjoy a good game of Dungeons & Dragons. I love powering up my character and facing increasingly more powerful foes. Doing this right requires gold and experience. And the best way to get those things is a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl. If you need some context on D&D, this video might help. The short but overly simplified version: in D&D you explore underground complexes, fight monsters therein, and take their gold. Unfortunately, dungeons aren’t set up for the convenience of adventurers like us. Sometimes the monster is challenging but ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Rob Hedgpeth. Today we announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, the first DBaaS (database-as-a-service) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform on an industry-leading, cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for – fully featured, fully customizable and backed by world-class support and database expertise from the source, the engineers who built it.MariaDB Enterprise Server, part of MariaDB Platform, is a 100% Open Source modern SQL database. MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4 extends the capabilities of the widely-deployed MariaDB Community Server with enterprise-focused advanced features, optimized builds, and ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Franz Aman. Today marks a new milestone for MariaDB with the launch of SkySQL, a next-generation cloud database that combines powerful enterprise features and world-class database support with groundbreaking innovation. There is someone in particular that’s worth thanking at this moment – Amazon. They pioneered the first generation of databases on the internet. But in classic retail fashion they simply strip-mined the best of open source databases, and made it available on their shelf without an ability to innovate on the database itself. Databases are some of the most complex software products today. Wrapping open source databases ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Saravana Krishnamurthy. SkySQL is the first database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform in the cloud. Engineered for mission-critical applications and enterprise governance, SkySQL cloud database is focused on features which make life better for the developer, the DBA, and the operator — extending powerful enterprise features with unrivaled ease of use and first-in-class innovation.MariaDB Platform for Transactions Whether you need transactional capabilities for dev/test or production, MariaDB Platform for Transactions delivers the robust modern SQL capabilities of MariaDB Enterprise Server either in single-node Standalone configuration, or in a multi-node replicated Primary/Replica topology ... Read More