This tutorial shows you how to install TiDB using TiUP, start a local cluster, connect to it with the MySQL client, and run your first queries on Ubuntu and RHEL-based Linux systems. If you’ve ever struggled to scale MySQL beyond a single write node, TiDB offers a solution without requiring you to learn a new query language. It uses the MySQL protocol, so your existing applications, drivers, ORMs, and even the mysql client work with it. Let’s get TiDB up and running. TecMint Weekly Newsletter Get the Learn Linux 7 Days Crash Course free when you join 34,000+ Linux professionals…
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OpenAI has released its Codex Security command-line interface and software development kit as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license, providing a new way to bring its AI security scanner into development workflows.The CLI can scan repositories, review staged and unstaged changes before a commit, compare findings across scans and export results for use in other code-scanning tools. Teams can also run it in CI and set a severity threshold that returns a failing status when a completed scan identifies a finding at or above that level. OpenAI recommends starting with advisory results before allowing findings to affect the…
Everyone is arguing about AI and entry level jobs. Almost nobody is watching the other end of the ladder.A few days ago I wrote about a young developer who cannot get past the first interview and cannot tell whether he got worse or the door got narrower. I have not stopped thinking about him. The conversation about AI and entry level jobs is loud, crowded, and mostly correct. The junior work is gone because the machine does it in eight seconds and does not ask about health insurance. But there is a second thing happening at the same time, quietly,…
Not long ago, some business leaders seemed to view enterprise search as a “nice-to-have.” Or, at the very least, they considered it more of a supporting utility than a strategic, business-critical platform.Organizations use enterprise search tools to help employees locate internal documents and enable support teams to surface relevant information. And, of course, retailers have long needed search to help customers navigate their product catalogs. But historically, expectations have been relatively modest: Users entered a few keywords and received a list of links, and then they did the remaining legwork themselves to figure out which results were relevant.It’s little surprise,…
AI coding tools are producing more code, faster, than teams have ever had to absorb before. That productivity story is real, but it comes with a bill that most engineering leaders have not fully paid yet. Technical debt piles up faster. Repetition slips in. Security gaps and quality issues show up in places where nobody was watching, because nobody wrote the code that put them there. Speed alone is not the win it appears to be if the review layer never scales to match.Mike Vizard sits down with Mladen Lazic, CTO of Scopic, to work through what it actually takes…
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API Builder. In that post I showed how to query the MCP server from VSCode, but I didn’t explain the setup. This post shows how I did that.First, you need to ensure you have access enabled for MCP access. There is a doc on this, though I found it slightly confusing. I think the doc is trying to make this easier as there are public MCP servers available and a bit of a VSCode marketplace. However, that’s not what I wanted.I wanted a local server, using the…
If you’ve been looking for a structured way to get started with Linux and IT infrastructure, the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA) is an excellent place to begin. This course explains everything you need to know before you register, including what the exam covers, how the six exam domains are weighted, how much time you should expect to spend preparing, and the most effective way to study. TecMint Weekly Newsletter Get the Learn Linux 7 Days Crash Course free when you join 34,000+ Linux professionals reading every Thursday. Check your email for a magic link to get started. Something…
In today’s enterprise software delivery environment, AI has moved from a distant possibility to an active area of experimentation across the CI/CD pipeline. The conversation around AI in software delivery often runs ahead of the underlying reality, and most organizations are still working through what it takes to operationalize AI inside delivery architectures that were built long before AI was a practical consideration.Techstrong polled its community of DevOps, platform engineering and software delivery professionals to understand where AI adoption in CI/CD really stands, where it is being applied today, and what is standing in the way of broader operationalization. Our…
Every command in this guide was tested on Ubuntu 26.04 and RHEL 10. You’ll learn how to install lazygit, understand its interface, stage and commit changes, create and switch branches, view commit history, resolve merge conflicts, and stash changes—all without leaving a single terminal window. Normally, you’d run git status, use git add -p to stage the right changes, check them with git diff –staged, commit with git commit, and then verify everything with git log –oneline –graph. That’s several commands just to complete one change. With lazygit, you can do all of this from one screen using the arrow…
DevOps used to be a manageable rhythm: several core tools, a handful of respected blogs, and a few incident write-ups that made everyone slightly uncomfortable in a useful way. Now it feels like a firehose aimed directly at the on-call rotation.DevOps teams now have more information than they can reasonably track. Critical updates are scattered across numerous topics and sources, and as the information grows more fragmented, it becomes harder to tell what actually matters.Why DevOps Teams Cannot Keep UpIn many organizations, “staying current” is treated like a personal hobby – something engineers do after hours or during lunch. But…