Day: May 31, 2022

A Raspberry Pi is a mini-computer board to which you can connect a monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and install a Linux-based operating system with a GUI. Or you can use it in “headless” mode with no GUI and run, for example, a database server. There are many usages you can give a Raspberry Pi—from building a Minecraft server to smart mirrors, the possibilities are endless.

Since I started to discover MariaDB and learned about database clusters, Distributed SQL, and Xpand, the idea of building a Raspberry Pi cluster has been in the back of my head. A cluster like this is a great way to experiment with distributed systems.

Tom Granot and I have had the privilege of Vlad Mihalcea’s online company for a while now. As a result,  we decided to do a workshop together talking about a lot of the things we learned in the process. This workshop would be pretty informal ad-hoc, just a bunch of guys chatting and showing off what we can do with tooling. 

In celebration of that, I thought I’d write about some of the tricks we discussed amongst ourselves in the past to give you a sense of what to expect when joining us for the workshop but also a useful tool in its own right.