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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 [...]
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 [...]