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With the MySQL 5.6 production-ready GA set for release in the coming days, it’s good to re-cap the key features that make 5.6 the best release of the database ever.  At a glance, MySQL 5.6 is simply a better MySQL with improvements that enhance every...

An early preview release Git v2.1.0-rc0 is now available for testing at the usual places. The tarballs are found at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/ The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.1.0-rc0' tag and...

By Ron This is part 3 in a three-part series: part 1, part 2 Welcome to OGMJ, part 3. After playing with modern Java code in part 1, and exploring deployment, management, monitoring and benchmarking ofJVM applications in part 2, it is time to delve...

I gave a 30 minute talk at the Operability.io conference yesterday on the topic of “The Morning Paper meets operability.” In a first for me, I initially prepared the talk as a long blog post, and then created a set of supporting slides at the end. Today...

Major news in July include: a recap of how the Operations team collaborated with the RIPE NCC to measure the delivery of Wikimedia sites to users in Asia and elsewhere; an analysis of the impact of the San Francisco data center on the speed of Wikimedia...