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Intelligent Linking and Indexing in DocBook
One of the issues I have with DocBook XML is that the links are a little forced and manual. By that, I mean that if I have a command, like trepctl, and I used it in a sentence or description, if I want to link trepctl back to the corresponding trepctl page, I have to…
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MC at Percona Live San Francisco 2014
Now I’m back in the MySQL fold, I’ve got the opportunity to speak at Percona Live again. I’ve always enjoyed speaking at this conference (back when it was known by another name…), although I need to up my game and do the 6 talks I did back in 2009. On the Tuesday afternoon, tutorials day,…
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MySQL to Hadoop Step-By-Step
We had a great webinar on Thursday about replicating from MySQL to Hadoop (watch the whole thing). It was great, but one of the questions at the end was ‘is there an easy way to test’. Sadly we can’t go giving out convenient ready-to-run downloads of these things because of licensing and and other complexities,…
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Real-Time Replication from MySQL to Cassandra
Earlier this month I blogged about our new Hadoop applier, I published the docs for that this week (http://docs.continuent.com/tungsten-replicator-3.0/deployment-hadoop.html) as part of the Tungsten Replicator 3.0 documentation (http://docs.continuent.com/tungsten-replicator-3.0/index.html). It contains some additional interesting nuggets that will appear in future blog posts. The main part of that functionality that performs the actual applier for Hadoop is…
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Getting Data into Hadoop in real-time
Moving data between databases is hard. Without ever intending it, I seem to have spent a lifetime working on solutions for getting data into and out of databases, but more frequently between. In fact, my first job out of university was migrating data from BRS/Text, a free-text database (probably what we would call a NoSQL)…
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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…
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Developing Applications for use with Continuent Tungsten and Tungsten Replicator in SDJ
I’ve just had a new article published with the Software Developers Journal talking about how you can write applications to take full advantage of Continuent Tungsten and Tungsten Replicator. As a developer of an application there really isn’t a problem better than finding that you have to scale up the application and the database that…
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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.…
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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…