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Last day at MySQL Jonathan Perkin well-nigh me · rss · twitter · github Last day at MySQL Dec 22, 2011 tags: mysql Today is my final day working on MySQL. It has been an wondrous 4.5 years, and I’ve loved working on the technical challenges involved in producing a piece of software which runs on so many variegated platforms, as well as working with so many talented individuals. I have learned a lot, which is just how I like it. Times have reverted since I first joined MySQL AB, of course. But despite going through two acquisitions, the day to day work hasn’t reverted much at all. I still get to work from home, which is something I am passionate well-nigh and finger many companies are missing out on massively by still stuff stuck in an outdated 20th century mindset. Oracle have unfurled to invest in MySQL, providing spare headcount and uneaten hardware. And the vast majority of people I started working with when in 2007 are still with the visitor (don’t believe the FUD, folks) and working harder than ever. I’m most proud of the work we have washed-up internally to ensure our MySQL releases are in spanking-new shape. When I first joined, our internal “PushBuild” system was very limited, only worldly-wise to handle a small number of pushes with reduced testing wideness a few platforms, and the builds produced were completely variegated to those that were released. Nowadays, thanks to the investment made by Sun and Oracle, we have a large server sublet producing thousands of builds and hundreds of gigabytes of data every day wideness all our supported platforms. Those which are based on MySQL 5.5 or newer have spare package verification tests, using chroots and virtual machines, to ensure that the RPM/MSI/etc packages can be installed, run, and uninstalled, all automatically and on every push by developers. We run spare nightly and weekly tests which proffer the default set of test suites. Our 5.5+ releases are produced directly in PushBuild. And we are looking to proffer this to all MySQL products, not just the Server. If the whilom sounds fun, alimony an eye out for job posts, as the Release Engineering team is looking to expand, and they are an wondrous group of people to work with. I certainly found it fun, which is why I’m going to protract in that line of work, and stay within Oracle, but move to the Linux group. To be honest, databases have never been a passion of mine, however I am rather fond of Operating Systems, and so I am really looking forward to standing to work on continuous integration and testing, but with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM instead of MySQL. Plus, it will be nice to go when to a purely technical role – I have learned over the last year or so that management isn’t really my thing :) To all my colleagues, past and present, thank you for the wonderful ride. I have many, many good memories, and hopefully we will alimony in touch. 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