Marko Makela, InnoDB Architect at MariaDB – Two Weeks of Databases #DB2W

Interview: Marko Mäkelä, InnoDB architect @ MariaDB.
This interview is part of the Two Weeks of Databases initiative #DB2W.

Index
00:00 Are we online? 🙂
00:16 Welcome
01:00 Marko’s introduction
03:06 A bit of history
06:17 Marko’s daily work
07:47 InnoDB team
08:20 Marko’s move from Oracle to MariaDB
12:19 InnoDB high level overview
14:46 Spinning disks vs SSD
16:32 Redo Log refactoring
17:34 rr debugger
19:21 Benefits of Redo Log refactoring
23:05 JIRA
23:51 Engine-independent transaction logs
26:00 XA bugs
28:14 Engine-independent online ALTER TABLE
30:39 Getting rid of Foreign Key limitations
33:38 Plans for InnoDB in MariaDB 10.6
38:35 Regrettable design decisions
40:56 Hints for new InnoDB contributors
42:20 Suggested readings