Mission-critical applications require high availability. The goal of high availability is to provide users with consistent access to services or resources, minimizing the chances of interruption.

SQL has a long and proven history. It has survived the fuss around NoSQL.

Slow query times in large datasets are a common headache in database management.

TL;DR: I’m writing a new book on MariaDB for developers, and it will be available in the next few months.

I’m happy to announce that now the whole website is available en Español!

Today I completed the second migration of my website from Blogger to Hugo (previously from a drag-and-drop platform to Blogger).

Docker allows you to create isolated environments. And not only in production.

Over the past almost two years, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to work with the Marketing team at MariaDB plc as a Developer Advocate.

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system that uses the Structured Query Language (or SQL) to manage and manipulate data.

Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the open source event organized by our partner Imagunet in Colombia.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Cloud Expo Europe in London with our team at MariaDB, where we promoted SkySQL, our cloud database solution.

Can you tell us a little bit about your database and what makes it unique?

ChatGPT is truly impressive. You can instruct it to do all sorts of things when they can be communicated in plain text.

A proxy is a server software, typically installed in a separate machine, that forwards requests to servers on behalf of clients.

Database replication is a process that copies data from one database (primary) to another (replica).

Some months ago, I was lucky enough to get a bunch of Raspberry Pi minicomputers from MariaDB Corporation.

Do you want to start a basic HTTP server to serve the files in a directory on your machine using Java?

JPA stands for Jakarta Persistence API (previously, Java Persistence API). It’s an API specification for database connectivity in Java applications.

A database connection pool stores ready-to-use database connections that threads can borrow when they need them, and return when they finish the work with the database.

To run SQL queries in Java, you need a Connection object.

To open and close database connections in Java, get a JDBC driver for your database.

Recently, I joined MariaDB Corporation as a Developer Advocate. My job is to help software developers by creating useful content and enabling them to succeed especially with Java and MariaDB databases.

Some weeks ago I decided to accept a position as a Developer Advocate at MariaDB Corporation.

MariaDB’s ColumnStore is an engine that stores data in a columnar fashion.