14 Jun 2026
Planet Grep
Mattias Geniar: Linux debugging tools I use daily
Every server I run, including the fleet behind Oh Dear 's uptime checks, has the same set of debugging tools installed before anything goes wrong. Not because the application needs them, but because the one time you reach for strace is at 2am, the box is misbehaving, and apt install is the last thing you want to be doing while you work out what broke.
14 Jun 2026 3:51pm GMT
Frederic Descamps: MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions
On May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases: These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great! On behalf of the MariaDB Foundation and the entire MariaDB Team, let me thank you all! If we refer to MariaDB Server […]
14 Jun 2026 3:51pm GMT
Frederic Descamps: MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine
MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. The idea is very interesting: use MariaDB Server as usual, but create some tables using ENGINE=DuckDB and benefit from DuckDB's columnar storage and vectorized execution for analytical queries. In other words, […]
14 Jun 2026 3:51pm GMT