Talk at DevOpsConf Russia 2018

My last trip to Moscow was the beginning of an exciting train ride to Siberia and lake Baikal. I am looking forward to be back next month, ten years later, for a different but again very exciting trip: talking about MySQL on the cloud at the DevOpsConf Russia 2018 (ex- RootConf). You can read the abstract of the talk here.

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Barcelona 2018

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Minor Version Upgrades for MySQL on RDS

Very happy that my post on RDS & MySQL minor versions (and how to speed up RDS MySQL upgrades) went live today on the Percona Community Blog. You can read the entire post here.

Screenshot-2018-7-10 How to Automate Minor Version Upgrades for MySQL on RDS - Percona Community Blog

JAXenter: serverless databases are still a big question mark

Vorerst sind Serverless-Datenbanken noch ein großes Fragezeichen is the (German) title of the interwiew I recently had with Jaxenter about relational databases and DevOps. You can find my answers here.

Screenshot-2018-6-16 Vorerst sind Serverless-Datenbanken noch ein großes Fragezeichen - JAXenter

Enabling KMS encryption for a running Amazon RDS instance

Last week I wrote a post on enabling KMS encryption for a running Amazon RDS instance for the Open Source Database Community Blog of Percona . Glad to share with the amazing Percona community how at Funambol we encrypted dozens of Amazon RDS instances without significant downtime. You can read the post here.

Screenshot-2018-6-9 Enabling KMS encryption for a running Amazon RDS instance - Percona Community Blog

Geolocation Challenges in Disputed Territories

Curious about how software developers can manage location-based services when dealing with disputed territories or partially recognized states? We will see how things can go badly wrong, how (surprisingly) widespread the problem is discuss simple patterns on how to minimize the impacts of geolocation challenges. How can you really care about all your users around the world? Join me next Monday at 5PM at Factory Berlin Mitte (event for Factory members only)

Operational challenges of RDBMS on the cloud

Here are the abstract and the slides of my talk “Do not press that Button: Operational Challenges of relational Databases on the Cloud” at the DevOps Conference 2018 in Berlin this week.