🤓Wrote a short recap of some internal AI demos we ran at @mariadb.bsky.social recently. Mostly #SQL + #Vector search + #RAG patterns. Repo links are in the post if you want to poke around the code: 👉https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/we-ran-an-internal-ai-demo-competition-here-are-the-winners/

🚀 New release: #MariaDB Connector/J 3.5.8 🔧 Update your pom.xml and get performance improvements and bug fixes. mariadb.com/docs/release...

RAG in a box with @mariadb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxAy...

Our acquisition of GridGain is complete! The move marks the launch of #MariaDB’s AI-Ready Operating Platform, a unified system designed to handle the extreme-velocity data requirements of autonomous AI agents. Learn more: mariadb.com/newsroom/pre...

🤔 Here's why MariaDB doesn't offer an "inner product" distance function 🧵

🚀 Open WebUI to support #MariaDB Vector as a vector DB backend: github.com/open-webui/o...

🤓 The truck (or bus) factor measures the number of key people who would need to be lost (for example leave the team) before a software project is seriously compromised or unable to continue. This paper from 2016 proposes a method for estimating this factor. arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06766

Here we go...

⚠️ Be very, very careful with "YOLO modes" when running AI agents. This kind of thing happens. See this GitHub issue for a real-life example: github.com/google-gemin... #aifails #ai #mcp #devops

Lazydocker doesn't provide a built-in option for running new containers. Here's how to add it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=slas...

🔍 From pattern matching using electromechanical devices to Language Models for retrieval. Oldie but goodie. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/618...

Top 3 programming languages by efficiency: - Time and Memory: C, Pascal, Go - Energy Efficiency: C, Rust, C++ - Energy and Time: C, Rust, C++ - Energy and Memory: C, Pascal, Go - Energy, Time, and Memory: C, Pascal, Go Source: greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/u...

🚀New release: MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.1 New features and bug fixes. Learn more at mariadb.com/docs/release... #NodeJS #JavaScript #TypeScript

Building #MariaDB Server from source on macOS is super easy. Clone the repo and follow the instructions by the MariaDB Foundation. Also, make sure to install bison correctly (via brew) which includes adding it to the PATH! All the steps are detailed here: mariadb.org/get-involved...

🚀 New @mariadb.bsky.social Community Server versions available (current stable releases for each long-term branch): → 11.8.6 → 11.4.10 → 10.11.16 → 10.6.25 Learn more: mariadb.com/resources/bl...

#MariaDB in your #Microsoft #Azure account: mariadb.com/resources/bl...

For those who attended my talk "RAG Without the Plumbing" in #Brussels with the #MariaDB Foundation, here's the video about vector embeddings that I referenced. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkB2...

🙏 Thanks to everyone who joined my talk "Deploying RAG Without the Plumbing," and to the MariaDB Foundation for organizing the event. As always, I had a blast interacting with software developers working on real projects with MariaDB 👏 #MariaDB #AI #Brussels

Playing around with something new. I’ll share more when I get this ready in a few days.

My colleague Jags Ramnarayan is speaking tomorrow on how #DBAs and #Developers can build out AI Agents for database management with #MariaDB. Free event. buildevcon.com/ai-dba-self-...

Like in software, production found a case no one imagined.

Still using #MySQL? Stewarded by Oracle, MySQL has been in decline for years. Stop using it in 2026, especially if your care about the #opensource #FOSS methodology and not just the license. 👉 optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons...

Learn key vocabulary and concepts like vector embeddings, semantic search, RAG. In this video, I use #Java and @mariadb.bsky.social but most of the concepts apply to other programming languages and databases as well.

Just explored Ignored Indexes in #MariaDB. Neat way to mark indexes so the optimizer doesn’t use them while still keeping them maintained. Great to check if an index is worth dropping without the risk of re-creating it later. How do you decide when an index is no longer useful?

🚀New release: @mariadb.bsky.social Connector/J 3.5.7. Time to update your #Java Maven pom.xml files... or build.gradle of course!

🙋 Anybody using Lima for easily creating #Linux virtual machines? Here I'm emulating x86 on ARC which I needed for demoing #MariaDB Enterprise Manager. It supports x86 on ARM, ARM on x86, and native setups. It's a project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Check it out at lima-vm.io

Frequency writing SQL manually. If you are starting your career in the software development industry, you must learn SQL. There are plenty of good resources online. My 2 cents 👇 ▶️ youtu.be/-b3trv4e5TE?... 📗https://mariadbfordevelopers.com Source: DZone's 2025 trend report on database systems.

🚨 Scheduling database backups is not enough. Always test that the backups can actually be restored. With #MariaDB, you can... [ continues 👇]

I'm looking for a video editor to support the official @mariadb.bsky.social #YouTube channel. Experience with technical/programming content is key. If you're interested or can recommend someone, send me a message. Channel: www.youtube.com/mariadb

Stop treating your database like a black box. 📦 Dive into MariaDB's architecture, storage engines, and file structure in this essential tutorial to understand what's really happening under the hood. 🔗 bit.ly/3JXBGis #MariaDB #Database #DevOps

🤩This is so cool! #MariaDB Enterprise Manager automatically creates a fully-configurable #Grafana dashboard. Great tool for teams handling mission-critical workloads with MariaDB. 👉Check it out: mariadb.com/products/ent...

So helpful! 😆 Anyway... with #MariaDB you have alternatives. Stop delayed replicas, check if you have backups, check the binary log... and of course, always use privileges to limit what the AI can do!

Storing #Gemini vector embeddings in #MariaDB via #Python with #LangChain www.youtube.com/shorts/SY_yY... #OpenSource #ai #LLMs #programming #genai

🎥 Editing this video was fun! I hope you like it. ➡️ Implementing semantic search with #Python, #LangChain, #FastAPI, and #MariaDB Cloud (serverless) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8XG...

#MariaDB Enterprise 2026: 🤖 RAG-in-a-box: No AI frameworks 🗣️ Developer Copilot: Text-to-SQL 🔀 Unified Platform: Tx, analytics, and AI ☁️ Serverless: Pay for what you use ⚡ MariaDB Exa: 1000x faster real-time analytics 🚀 250% Faster than v10.6: Massive performance jump ...👇

📺 Walkthrough with @alejandro-du.bsky.social! Watch how to make data modifications with the official #MariaDB MCP Server using plain English instead of SQL: www.youtube.com/shorts/uim05...

Ensure your voice shapes the future of #MariaDB: mariadb.typeform.com/survey-2025?...

#MariaDB Enterprise #Kubernetes Operator simplifies the deployment and management of MariaDB #databases within the K8 environment. 🌐 Now, you can easily install the operator on an #Ubuntu VM by following these steps: mariadb.com/resources/bl...

👀 Add #Java 25 support 🤩 #MyBatis #SQL

It's so rewarding to see my work cited in peer-reviewed papers. Today I found another one, published in the Journal of CIEES. Exactly the kind of motivation I needed to keep going with my next book—thanks to the authors for referencing one of mine!

📕 Chapter 7 ready! My book is getting some shape now. Learn more at mariadbfordevelopers.com #MariaDB #developers #Java #Python #NodeJS #SQL

🚀 New release: @mariadb.bsky.social Connector/C++ 1.1.7 mariadb.com/resources/bl...

👨‍💻 Join me tomorrow and learn how to implement semantic search with #Python, #LangChainAI, and #MariaDB 👉 go.mariadb.com/25Q3-WBN-GLB...

✅ Install #Java 25 ✅ Try top-level instance main methods and class-less compact files www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Hw...

"Python is not optimal for programs that have high reliability constraints (because of its weak static semantic checking) or that are built and maintained by many people or over a long period of time (again because of the weak static semantic checking)" —John V. Guttag

Doomguy’s mad at my #Python code. A quick pip install mariadb should calm him down.

The official #MariaDB #MCP Server in action from #VSCode: Interact with your database in plain English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5T7...

NiceGUI is Python's Vaadin. Check it out: nicegui.io Implement UIs in plain Python without writing HTML/JavaScript at all.

My favorite change is that MariaDB got an improved implementation of the WHERE year(...) = ? rewriting. use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2024-12... In picture: the green check mark used to be yellow, with the "a" footnote: Unconditionally rewritten — even if only a matching function-based index exists

Anybody using lazydocker to manage/troubleshoot/monitor Docker containers? #Docker #DevOps #K8s #Linux #MariaDB