Federico Razzoli at MariaDB Server Fest 2020
MariaDB Temporal tables Q&A
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Federico Razzoli
Federico Razzoli is a database professional, with a preference for open source databases, who has been working with DBMSs since year 2000. In the past 20+ years, he served in a number of companies as a DBA, Database Engineer, Database Consultant and Software Developer.
In 2016, Federico summarized his extensive experience with MariaDB in the “Mastering MariaDB” book published by Packt. Being an experienced database events speaker, Federico speaks at professional conferences and meetups and conducts database trainings. He is also a supporter and advocate of open source software.
As the Director of Vettabase, Federico does business worldwide but prefers to do it from Scotland where he lives.
MariaDB, MySQL and Ansible: automating database infrastructures
Federico Razzoli at MinervaDB Athena 2020
Creating Vagrant development machines for MariaDB
Federico Razzoli at FOSDEM 2021
Automate MariaDB Galera deployments with Ansible (Percona Live)
Federico Razzoli at Percona Live 2021
Automate MariaDB Galera deployments with Ansible
Federico Razzoli at MariaDB HA MiniFest 2021
Vettabase is now a MariaDB Foundation Technology Partner
Blixy is documenting how to automate MariaDB administration with proper tools Update: April 2025 Our relationship with the MariaDB Foundation upgraded! We are now proud MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsors. See the Foundation's announcement: Vettabase Becomes Silver...
Finding an optimal size for Aria Pagecache
I wrote two articles about correctly sizing InnoDB buffer pool: Is InnoDB Buffer Pool big enough? and Can we shrink InnoDB Buffer Pool?. Aria is a MariaDB storage engine that is used for internal temporary tables and, potentially, tables created by the...
How to skip an Ansible task by default
Ansible has a well-known mechanism to only run a certain list of tasks: tags. When we call ansible-playbook with the --tags parameter, we only execute tasks that have one of the specified tasks. There is also a --skip-tags option, which runs all tasks except those...
Can we shrink InnoDB Buffer Pool?
In my previous article, I wrote how to answer the question: Is InnoDB Buffer Pool big enough? But the buffer pool can also be too big. So you may wonder if you can shrink it. Reasons to shrink the Buffer Pool Why would one do such a thing? A common reason is saving...
Is InnoDB Buffer Pool big enough?
InnoDB buffer pool is the most important memory area to allocate. It contains the most frequently read data and index entries from InnoDB tables. Its size is determined by innodb_buffer_pool_size, which is one of the two most important settings for...