Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.
 | New webinar: 9 DevOps Tips for going in production with MySQL / MariaDB Galera ClusterIn this new webinar on October 11th, Johan Andersson, CTO at Severalnines, will guide you through 9 key DevOps tips to consider before taking Galera Cluster for MySQL / MariaDB into production. Monitoring, managing schema changes and pushing them in production, performance optimizations, configurations, version upgrades, backups; these are all aspects to consider before going live with Galera Cluster and Johan will share his 9 DevOps tips with you for a successful production environment. | |
Watch the replay: MySQL Query Tuning Part 2 - Indexing and EXPLAINYou can now watch the replay of Part 2 of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning, which covers Indexing as well as EXPLAIN, one of the most important tools in the DBA’s arsenal. Our colleague Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines, presents this webinar trilogy and this week he looked into answering questions such as why a given query might be slow, what the execution plan might look like, how JOINs might be processed, whether a given query is using the correct indexes, or whether it’s creating a temporary table. Find out more by watching the replay of this webinar. |  | |
 | Download our whitepaper on Database Sharding with MySQL FabricThis new whitepaper provides a close look at database sharding with MySQL Fabric. You will learn the basics of it, and also learn how to migrate to a sharded environment. It further discusses three different tools which are designed to help users shard their MySQL databases. And last but not least, it shows you how to set up a sharded MySQL setup based on MySQL Fabric and ProxySQL. | |
Critical zero-day vulnerabilities exposed in MySQLDatabase security notice: you can easily upgrade your MySQL and MariaDB servers with ClusterControl and this new blog post shows you how. You must have heard about the CVE-2016-6662, the recent zero-day exploit exposed in most of MySQL and its variants. The vulnerability flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker to inject malicious settings into your my.cnf,. We advise you to upgrade as soon as possible, if you haven’t done so yet, with these easy-to-follow instructions for ClusterControl users. | | |
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Have a good end of the week,
Jean-Jérôme Schmidt
Planets9s Editor
Severalnines AB