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Learn advanced best practices for building secure and efficient MySQL audit plugins. Discover real-world strategies for optimizing audit plugin performance and observability.
In this exclusive session from the 2026 MySQL Belgium Days event, Martin Alderete, Principal SRE at Booking.com, shares his expert advice on developing, deploying, and troubleshooting MySQL audit plugins at scale. He addresses how plugins operate within MySQL’s memory space, the challenges of concurrency and thread safety, and the critical importance of non-blocking, lightweight design for performance. Attendees gain hands-on insights into defensive programming, minimizing locking and CPU usage, and real-time observability with Prometheus and Grafana integrations. The presentation highlights practical techniques to avoid common pitfalls such as system crashes, data contention, and inefficient resource management. Throughout, Martin shares proven methods for ensuring plugins remain stable and fast, even in demanding production environments, empowering database professionals to enhance security and compliance while maintaining optimal MySQL performance. This session is essential viewing for MySQL developers, database administrators, and engineers seeking to master audit plugin development and achieve high levels of reliability and transparency within their MySQL environments.
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