lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026RDS → EC2: cheaper, sure… but what about performance? 🤔 A real-world story of migrating a 500+ GB production #MariaDB database from AWS RDS to EC2. Replication, cutover, rollback, performance — and the actual cost impact. 👉 mariadb.org/migrating-a-... #AWS #Database #mariadb #proxysql #luroconnect 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026AI-assisted security research has changed the game — and 2026 has been a very busy year for MariaDB Security. 🦭 A look at the surge in reports, what we fixed, and why responsible disclosure still matters. 🔐 mariadb.org/when-ai-find... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Security 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Free/Open Source Software in Education, Science & Business. Online conference by Chernihiv Polytechnic National University 🦭👩🎓 feit.stu.cn.ua/foss/ #mariadb #education 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🌊 TideSQL 5 + MariaDB! 🦭 TidesDB's LSM storage engine is evolving fast: MVCC, TTL, indexes, vector & full-text search, replication, Galera and more. I took another look at it 👀 mariadb.org/tidesql-5-an... #MariaDB #TidesDB 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you are interested to hear about #MariaDB innovation at #NextcloudConf26 don’t hesitate to catch me during the breaks (I have stickers too) 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026At #NextcloudConf26 ? Don’t miss the #MariaDB session this afternoon ! 🦭☁️ 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#NextcloudConf26 started! Packed main stage and there is an extra overflow room! This afternoon I will be on that stage to talk about the collaboration between #MariaDB Foundation , #Nextcloud and #passbolt 021
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#NextCloud Community conference 2026 is filling up before the start !! This afternoon, come to listen to me, I will present our Privacy-First Solution Stack that also includes #passbolt #mariadb 010
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026MariaDB 13.0 is now stable! Read more➡️ mariadb.org/mariadb-13-0... 🦭 1️⃣3️⃣ #mariadb 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I will be presenting the Privacy-First stack that includes #mariadb #nextcloud and #passbolt at the NextCoud Conference on Saturday in Berlin 🦭☁️🔑 nextcloud.com/conference-2... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hey, look what's popping up on my server! 🦭 #MariaDB #opensource #database 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Back from #PerconaLive ! Thank you for having us, the MariaDB Foundation, there. The atmosphere was so great and friendly! See you next year!! 001
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s now Sergei’s turn to shine on stage at #perconalive to talk about MariaDB Protocol Security Enhancement ! 🦭🔐 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Come to visit us at the #MariaDB Foundation booth during #PerconaLive and take our quizz 🦭 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Almost the last train 🚆 for #perconalive Next stop will be Amsterdam Zuid. Come to meet the MariaDB Team 🦭🦭🦭 010
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hey!! I just realised I will meet my long time friend and colleague with who it all started ! #sdog #perconalive 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My journey to Percona Live is at the starting point!! See you in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🐍 Python? 🦀 Rust? Go? JavaScript? We asked which language developers would use to write #MariaDB plugins — and 2,090 people answered. If you'd like to help us explore it, MDEV-40189 is waiting for contributors! 👉 mariadb.org/mariadb-plug... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Community feedback helps improve compatibility. 🦭 An update on MariaDB Connector/C and CONC-821: what changed, how it affected applications, and the work to restore and document the earlier behavior. mariadb.org/mariadb-conn... #MariaDB #OpenSource 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🦭 MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 Check out the sessions and come meet us in Amsterdam! 👇 mariadb.org/mariadb-at-p... #PerconaLive #OpenSource #MariaDB 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ever wondered what really changed between two #MariaDB Server versions? 🦭 I built a small tool to quickly compare system variables, status variables, privileges, plugins, storage engines, keywords, and more. 👉 lefred.be/content/mari... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026MariaDB Server 12.3.3, 11.8.9, 11.4.13 and 10.11.19 are out! 🦭 And if you're still running MariaDB 10.6… this one's for you: 10.6 has reached EOL, and there will be no 10.6.29. Upgrade time! 🔧 🔗 mariadb.org/mariadb-serv... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Database 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Look what was waiting for me this morning on my Fedora machine 👀 #MariaDB 12.3.3 is out! 🦭 010
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026MariaDB InnoDB Disk Space & Fragmentation - track them, visualize them, optimize them and reclaim disk space lefred.be/content/mari... #mariadb #innodb 🦭 💾 130
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE improvements mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... #mariadb #json 🦭 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join me at #PerconaLive I will be speaking about MariaDB Server plugins perconalive.com/2026-amsterd... #mariadb 🦭🧩 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How does a production database problem become an open-source improvement? This is the story of how Headout, Arcadiy Ivanov and MariaDB maintainers turned a JSON and temporary-table bottleneck into an upstream #MariaDB Server contribution: mariadb.org/from-a-produ... 🦭🙏 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Adobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default database platform as MySQL support ends. Discover what this means for Magento users and future workloads. mariadb.org/adobe-commer... Welcome to MariaDB! 🦭 #mariadb #magento #adobeCommerce 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026MariaDB and MySQL share history, protocols, tools and community—but they are not the same product. And yes, MariaDB bugs reach us faster when they are reported to MariaDB Jira. mariadb.org/say-the-name... 🦭🐬 #mariadb #mysql #community 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026What if you could reverse a transaction directly from its GTID? Here is the result of an idea and a script dating back around ten years: discover the GTID Info plugin, which analyses binary logs and generates reverse SQL code for DML operations. lefred.be/content/mari... 🦭🧩 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Deploy the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OpenStack. mariadb.org/deploying-th... 🦭☁️🔑 #mariadb #passbolt #nextcloud 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026MariaDB Tips & Tricks: Where does my configuration variable value come from?? 🦭 lefred.be/content/mari... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026MariaDB 13.1 Preview: Avoid MariaDB Restart Failures with --validate-config mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... 🦭 ✅️ 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Discover how the native MariaDB ADBC driver connects MariaDB Server with Apache Arrow, supporting queries, prepared statements, bulk ingestion, transactions, metadata, statistics, and more. ⏩️ 🦭 lefred.be/content/a-na... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Install the MariaDB ADBC driver, configure a DuckDB profile 🦆, and query MariaDB 🦭 data directly from DuckDB. #mariadb #duckdb #adbc lefred.be/content/when... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026So happy that my #Firefox add-on is now available. If you were looking for Group Tab management, take a look at it! 🦊🧩 lefred.be/content/fire... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Did you know that #MariaDB Server 🦭 supports online schema changes? Take a look 👀 at this other hidden gem! 💎 mariadb.org/mariadb-hidd... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Contributing to MariaDB Server isn’t only about code or bug reports. You can also help by enabling the Feedback Plugin, so we can better understand community environments and which features are used most. mariadb.org/feedback-plu... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Community 040
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Great work by Aracadyi on bringing BLOB, TEXT, JSON, and GEOMETRY support to the HEAP engine in MariaDB 13.1—an important improvement that helps more temporary tables stay in memory for better performance. mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Database 🦭🙏 020
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Meet Federico Razzoli, one of the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions nominees 🦭 In this interview, Federico shares his thoughts on open source, database communities, vector search, and the future of MariaDB. Read it here: mariadb.org/mariadb-foun... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Let us know which language you would like to use to write your MariaDB plugins once MDEV-40189 is done! mariadb.org/poll-which-l... 🦭 🧩 📊 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This is what I did on Friday night and Saturday morning, watching the World Cup ⚽️⌚️💡 github.com/lefred/bip6-... #Amazfit #bip6 #ZeppOS 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Let's continue the discovery of MariaDB Server 13.1's new features: focus on negative grants mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... #mariadb 🦭🚫🔐 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026MDEV-40189 is about lowering the barrier for MariaDB plugin development: support more languages. Do you have an idea? Join the conversation! mariadb.org/lowering-the... 🦭🧩🐍☕️ 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We continue the series of interviews presenting the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees with Fariha Shaikh mariadb.org/mariadb-foun... #mariadb 🦭 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I used Kdenlive for the first time to create my new videos for my MariaDB playlist. I still use it with Shotcut, but happy to see those powerful open source video production tools working nicely on Linux 😉 🐧 📹️ 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Yesterday, I presented how to run MariaDB Server on Kubernetes using the MariaDB Operator during the DB Mastery Series about MariaDB & MySQL on Kubernetes. My slides are available at: speakerdeck.com/lefred/runni... 🦭 ☸️ #MariaDB #k8s 010
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026MariaDB 🦭 13.1 Preview is here: rolling release, fresh features, and plenty of community-powered goodness like negative grants, utf8mb4 by default, JSON operator support, vector index metadata, and more... Time to take it for a spin! mariadb.org/mariadb-13-1... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We continue the series of interviews presenting the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees. 🦭 Here's Sylvain Arbaudie's interview. Sylvain is nominated in the Technical Excellence category: mariadb.org/mariadb-foun... 000
lefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Did you know you could run the DuckDB UI from MariaDB Server? 🦭 🦆 020
