{"id":9953,"date":"2017-04-17T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/welcome-to-m17-part-2-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:57:57","slug":"welcome-to-m17-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/welcome-to-m17-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to M|17, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/m17bannernew2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/m17bannernew2.png\" alt=\"m17bannernew\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-15736\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Welcome to the second day of the MariaDB&#8217;s first user conference<\/strong><br \/>\nOn the 12th, at 09:00, started the first-ever experimental MariaDB Associate certification exam and I was glad to be among the first and participate<br \/>\nThis exam was offered free of charges to all registered attendees<br \/>\nAs I wrote over, it was really experimental because all candidates faced many problems<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Certification-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Certification-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Certification\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-15883\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst, as this exam was proctored, the authentification process was very, very slow, essentially due to the overloaded network<br \/>\nOnce done, we were all expecting a &#8220;Multiple Choice Question&#8221; as in almost all other certifications instead of we had to perform real-world database administration tasks on a remote linux box where a MariaDB server was installed<br \/>\nFollowing skills were tested:<br \/>\n<strong>Server configuration<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Security<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Users and Roles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Schema Operations<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Query Performance<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Backup and Restore<\/strong><br \/>\nTesting duration was 90mn but when you are facing network break and slowness, it&#8217;s really short<br \/>\nTo pass the exam you need 48 points on a total of 60, so 80%<br \/>\nOne thing you do not have to forget when you are finished is to absolutely restart the MariaDB server otherwise all your servers configuration answers are lost<br \/>\nThey kindly warned us before we started but at the end there were no alert and communication was roughly stopped<br \/>\nThis certification will be definitely Online in one or two months<br \/>\nAfter lunch, which was as the day before a big buffet but more exotic, my decision was to go to the session of Ashraf Sharif from Severalnines<br \/>\n<strong>Step-By-Step: Clustering with Galera and Docker Swarm<\/strong><br \/>\nI was really happy to see him as we often collaborated for several ClusterControl support cases. He was happy too<br \/>\nUnfortunately for him, he had to speed up because 45mn was not enough for such a vast topic<br \/>\nIt was even quite a challenge as he had more than 140 slides and a demo<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FullSizeRender-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FullSizeRender-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-15899\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeveral key notes were then proposed to close this 2-days event in the conference center<br \/>\nAgain the air-conditioning was too cool and this time I got sick<br \/>\nGunnar Hellekson, director of Product Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux started with <strong>Open Source in a dangerous world<\/strong><br \/>\nHe discussed mainly on how we can leverage the amazing innovation coming out of open source communities while still plotting a journey with secure, stable and supported open source platforms, illustrating with some examples of customer and organizations that use open source to not just innovate but add more competitive advantage<br \/>\nThe last key note was proposed by Michael Widenius himself, <strong>Everything Old is New: the return of relational<\/strong><br \/>\nAs the database lanscape is changing, evolving very fast and is no longer the property of some as Oracle, IBM or Microsoft,<br \/>\nhe is convinced that even NOSQL may work for a subset of use cases, open source relational database are delivering more and more capabilities for NoSQL use cases at a rapid pace<\/p>\n<p>As a conclusion for this MariaDB&#8217;s first user conference, my overall impression is positive, it was well organized, all the staff were enthusiastic and open, we could meet and talk with a lot of different people<br \/>\nSo,  a sweet juicy well dosed workshop, some high level sessions to bring sweetness and acidity into perfect harmony, 3 or 4 spicy key notes to enhance the taste of the event spirit, all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, shake and you obtain the delicious and unforgettable M|17 cocktail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the second day of the MariaDB&#8217;s first user conference On the 12th, at 09:00, started the first-ever experimental MariaDB Associate certification exam and I was glad to be among the first and participate This exam was offered free of charges to all registered attendees As I wrote over, it was really experimental because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":9935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"type_dbi":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-database-administration-monitoring"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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