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Jon Tobin
Jon is currently the Director of Solution Engineering at Percona. He has been in the Enterprise solutions space for over 10 years. When not managing the misfit Percona SolEng team, Jon enjoys spending time with his family, mountain biking and helping the elderly cross the street.

Migrating MongoDB Away from MMAPv1

This is another post in the series of blogs on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll discuss moving away from the MMAPv1 storage engine. Introduction WIth the MongoDB v3.0 release in February of 2015, the long-awaited ability to choose storage engines became a reality. As of version 3.0, […]

MongoDB PIT Backups: Part 2

This blog post is the second in a series covering MongoDB PIT backups. You can find the first part here. Sharding Makes Everything Fun(ner) The first blog post in this series looked at MongoDB backups in a simple single-replica set environment. In this post, we’ll look at the scale-out use case. When sharding, we have exactly […]

Are Docker Containers Good for Your Database?

This blog post reviews the appropriateness of Docker and other container solutions for your database environment. A few weeks back, I wrote a fairly high-level blog post about containers. It covered what you should consider when thinking about using Docker, rkt, LXC, etc. I hope you’ve taken the chance to give it a quick read. It’s a […]

Three Things to Consider When Thinking About Containers

Containers like Docker and Rocket are getting more popular every day. In my conversations with customers, they consistently ask what containers are and how they can use them in their environment. If you’re as curious as most people, read on. . . How did this happen? From what I understand, containers grew out of Google’s (and others’) […]

MongoDB Scalability Myth Busting (it scales!)

Recently I was talking with Tim Sharp, one of my colleagues from our Technical Account Manager team about MongoDB’s scalability. While doing some quick training with some of the Percona team, Tim brought something to my attention: he mentioned to me that several customers he has been in contact with have been telling him that “MongoDB […]

MongoDB revs you up: What storage engine is right for you? (Part 4)

Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: PerconaFT In this series of posts, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that a DBMS uses to create, read, update and delete data from a database. The storage engine should […]

MongoDB revs you up: What storage engine is right for you? (Part 3)

Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: RocksDB In this series of posts, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that a DBMS uses to create, read, update and delete data from a database. The storage engine should […]

MongoDB revs you up: What storage engine is right for you? (Part 2)

Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: WiredTiger In our last post, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other. From that post: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that a DBMS uses to create, read, update and delete data from a database. The […]

MongoDB revs you up: What storage engine is right for you? (Part 1)

Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines The tremendous data growth of the last decade has affected almost all aspects of applications and application use. Since nearly all applications interact with a database at some point, this means databases needed to adapt to the change in usage conditions as well. Database technology has grown significantly in the last […]

Increasing Cloud Database Efficiency – Like Crows in a Closet

In Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems, we explored the paradox that “Big Data” projects pose to organizations and how Tokutek is taking an innovative approach to solving those problems. In this post, we’re going to talk about another hot topic in IT, “The Cloud,” and how enterprises undertaking Cloud efforts often struggle with idea of “problem […]

Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems

Welcome to blog #2 in a series about the benefits of the Fractal Tree. In this post, I’ll be explaining Big Data, why it poses such a problem and how Tokutek can help. Given the fact that I am a lifelong fan of both Hip-hop and Big Data, the title was a no-brainer and, given […]

Fractal Tree Greatness: The Nexus

In my recent travels, I’ve been speaking with database users at various meetups and trade shows worldwide. Very often, I got questions centering around the best use cases for our products, be it TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine, or, TokuMX, our distribution of MongoDB. Over 90% of the time, I responded Cloud, Big Data or both. […]

Percona Live 2014 Impressions

Three weeks ago I had the privilege of attending my first Percona Live MySQL conference, which was incredible! In particular, there were two things that I found impressive about the conference. First, was the amount of knowledge sharing and support that MySQL users provide each other; it truly is a community. Coming from EMC, I’ve […]