The past few weeks have been quite a blur! On Tuesday I returned home from 24 days away, speaking at the 1st Latin American conference on MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud Technologies put on by the fabulous Santiago Lertora of Binlogic. This was a spectacular event with a few hundred people attending. Afterwards I did the Oracle Technology Network Tour of Latin America, north leg. After 7 countries, 14 talks and over 40 hours on a plane, I am glad to be home!
I am thrilled that we were able to interview XKCD’s Randall Munroe for OurSQL‘s celebration of 100 – episode 99 was our 100th episode (because naturally we started at episode 0) and episode 100 was when we rolled over to 3 digits.
I have some personal vacation planned, then a trip with coworkers in August. I will not be speaking at nor attending this year’s FrOSCon as I have been doing a lot of travel and am trying to minimize it for the rest of this year. However, I will be speaking at Nagios World North America in St. Louis in September, and MySQL Connect immediately after that.
With all that being said, here is a list of the database-related work (other than speaking and traveling) that we have done in the past few weeks:
- Added a new database and users in stage and production for our internal application for logging paid time off
- Added an additional database in testing for our crash-stats application.
- Debugged and fixed some backups timing out and other assorted fun backup issues.
- Added new grants to many databases because we had a load balancer failover to a new load balancer that we hadn’t added MySQL permissions for.
- Modified graphs.mozilla.org with new page definitions and new and updated test definitions, in stage and production.
- Fixed a problem with connectivity to our crash-stats staging server.
- Helped debug a processing script problem on Addons
- Dropped some legacy databases that used to be associated with quality.mozilla.org
- Set up databases for plugins.mozilla.org (authentication required, so I’m not linking to it).
- Fixed some data with malformed utf-8 characters. This was fascinating, because it was mostly text MySQL was trying to parse, such as “/x00″.
- An addons database slave rebooted and had an automatic server restore (ASR) performed. However, the database was corrupt and was re-seeded from the master.
- Added new permissions for the metrics users for the new bugzilla fields for the seamonkey 214, thunderbird 17 and firefox 17 fields.
- Helped debug an issue with an addons MySQL script hanging.
- Did a manual backfill when a crash-stats script failed to run one night.
- Started to add some postgres configuration information to puppet.
- Started to purge and defragment some of our tinderbox pushlog data.
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