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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 [...]
November 5, 2013
Introducing Percona Cloud Tools for MySQL
I am proud to announce Percona Cloud Tools, the next generation of tools for MySQL. I have been developing tools [...]
October 6, 2013
How can we bring query to the data?
Baron recently wrote about sending the query to the data looking at distributed systems like Cassandra. I want to take [...]
September 4, 2013
Running MySQL 5.6 on Amazon RDS: Webinar followup questions answered
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar, Q: Would you recommend Amazon RDS over manually setting up MySQL/Percona server [...]
August 21, 2013
Amazon RDS with MySQL 5.6 – Configuration Variables
One longstanding complaint I have heard for the past several years, and still hear today, is that Amazon’s Relational Database [...]
June 25, 2013
TokuMX is MongoDB on steroids
I am actually quite excited about Tokutek’s release of TokuMX. I think it is going to change the landscape of [...]
April 10, 2013
Why use encrypted backup with Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL?
We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to [...]
March 19, 2013
Facebook at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo and Advanced Registration Ending Soon
Facebook is a major user of MySQL and has pushed the performance limits of the technology. Their MySQL experts have [...]
March 13, 2013
MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL
As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important [...]
March 12, 2013
Oracle Technical Experts at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is sending some of their top technical people to speak at the Oracle, will [...]
February 14, 2013
Amazon Web Services and HP Keynotes at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
We are very pleased to announce the addition of HP and Amazon Web Services as keynote speakers for the Simone [...]
December 20, 2012
How to STOP SLAVE on Amazon RDS read replica
We are doing a migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 with a customer. This, unfortunately, involves some downtime – if [...]
October 24, 2012
Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures [...]
May 16, 2012
Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that [...]
April 10, 2012
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the [...]