Last weekend I attended my first Fosdem conference. It was great to finally visit the conference that might be the biggest open source conference in the world. It’s also an amazing experience how our Belgian friends pull off such a magnificent event pu…

Last week I wrote about our participation in the SkySQL and MariaDB roadshow. First event in Stuttgart completed on Friday, and the tour continues into Hamburg this Friday and Stockholm on February 7th.
But we will also be busy speaking at some other c…

SkySQL is a well known support provider in the MySQL ecosystem and since 2012 they are also an official Galera partner. SkySQL customers can get Galera Cluster for MySQL support as part of their SkySQL support contract, and issues are handled by the sa…

Our site gets dozens of bot registrations on a daily basis. I believe every site with membership does. It is so pointless (and yet so easy to achieve, so “we do it because we can”), that its depressing:
[11:55:18 AM] alexey.yurchenko: I wonder, what am…

A common question, especially for a new technology like Galera, is always that people want to know who else is already using the technology. In terms of sales this is often called reference customers. Over the last year we’ve seen some case studies and…

Sazze is an operator of key e-commerce sites like dealspl.us, ShopLately and Pocketly, as well as the Black Friday Survival Guide mobile application, one of the Top 3 Free Apple Appstore apps of Black Friday.
Sazze enlisted InterVision Systems Technolo…