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February 11, 2016
Measuring Docker IO overhead
This will be another post on using Percona Server via a Docker image. I want to follow up on my [...]
February 5, 2016
Measuring Percona Server Docker CPU/network overhead
Now that we have our Percona Server Docker images, I wanted to measure the performance overhead when we run the database in [...]
February 2, 2016
Experimental Percona Docker images for Percona Server
Docker is incredibly popular tool for deploying software, so we decided to provide a Percona Docker image for both Percona [...]
January 11, 2016
Bare-metal servers for button-push database-as-a-service
Enterprises’ demand flexibility, scalability and efficiency to keep up with the demands of their customers — while maintaining the bottom [...]
December 29, 2015
2016 Percona Live Tutorials Schedule is UP!
We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is up! The schedule [...]
December 3, 2015
Amazon Aurora in sysbench benchmarks
In my previous post Amazon Aurora – Looking Deeper, I promised benchmark results on Amazon Aurora. Amazon used quite a [...]
November 16, 2015
Amazon Aurora – Looking Deeper
Recently my colleague (by Percona) Yves Trudeau and colleague (by industry) Marco Tusa published their materials on Amazon Aurora. Indeed, Amazon [...]
October 20, 2015
Percona Live 2016 Call for Papers Open! Introducing: Community Voting
The Call for Papers for the fifth annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo) taking place April [...]
September 21, 2015
Containing your logical backups: mydumper in docker
Even with software like Percona Xtrabackup, logical backups remain an important component of a thorough backup strategy. To gather a logical [...]
June 30, 2015
Playing with Percona XtraDB Cluster in Docker
Like any good, thus lazy, engineer I don’t like to start things manually. Creating directories, configuration files, specify paths, ports [...]
June 19, 2015
Q&A: High availability when using MySQL in the cloud
Last week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst [...]
March 3, 2015
Improving Percona XtraDB Cluster SST startup with Google Compute Engine snapshots
As the need for information grows so does the size of data we need to keep in our databases. SST [...]
November 21, 2014
Google Compute Engine adds Percona XtraDB Cluster to click-to-deploy process
I’m happy to announce that Google has added Click-to-deploy functionality for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) on Google Cloud Compute nodes. [...]
August 19, 2014
5 great new features from Percona Cloud Tools for MySQL
It’s been three months since we announced anything for Percona Cloud Tools, not because we’ve been idle but because we’ve [...]
July 28, 2014
What I learned while migrating a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS
Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational [...]
July 8, 2014
TIMESTAMP Columns, Amazon RDS 5.6, and You
This comes from an issue that I worked on recently, wherein a customer reported that their application was working fine [...]
July 2, 2014
Using MySQL triggers and views in Amazon RDS
I recently had an opportunity to migrate a customer from a physical server into Amazon’s RDS environment. In this particular [...]
June 20, 2014
How to setup Docker for Percona ClusterControl and add existing Percona XtraDB Cluster
In my Percona ClusterControl and add the existing Patrick Galbraith’s blog series about Docker.
May 26, 2014
Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 with the Docker open-source engine
In my previous post, I blogged about using Percona Server with Docker and have shown you how fast and easy [...]
March 14, 2014
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.2, now with Amazon RDS support
Percona is glad to announce the release of RDS metrics from Amazon CloudWatch. With Nagios you can have the following [...]