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  • Anonymizing Data During Replication

    If you happen to work with personal data, chances are you are subject to SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) whether you like it or not. One of the worst aspects of this is that if you want to be able to analyse your data and you replicate out to another host, you have to find a way of…

  • Percona Live 2013, MySQL, Continuent and an ever-healthy Ecosystem

    I’m sitting here in the lounge at SFO thinking back on the last week, the majority of which has been spent meeting my new workmates and attending the Percona MySQL conference. For me it has been as much of a family reunion as it has been about seeing the wonderful things going on in MySQL.…

  • Pert & Simple

    I’m a huge fan of Kickstarter and back last year I was working on trying to expand my range a little from the rather narrow range of tech-related projects I’d been funding. One particular art project caught my eye. Firstly, it was local – well, within 50 miles – which is a surprise when so…

  • Gilmerton Cove

    I was fortunate enough recently to visit Gilmerton Cove. Despite the name, the cove is not located near the sea at all, but outside Edinburgh, and it is one of those places that makes you wonder how such a wonderful and intriguing location can have been kept as such a fantastic secret. We’ve visited Edinburgh…

  • Joining Continuent

    I’ve just completed my first month here at Continuent, strangely back into the MySQL ecosystem which I have been working in for some time before I joined CouchOne, and then Couchbase, two and half years ago. Making the move back to MySQL is both an experience, and somehow, comfortable… Continuent produce technology that makes for…

  • Moving from MySQL to Couchbase

    Before moving to Couchbase and working with NoSQL technology I had for years been a MySQL user. Making that leap from MySQL to NoSQL requires a number of changes, not least of which to the way you structure your data and then query it. I’ve tried …