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October 13, 2021
Migrating MongoDB to Kubernetes
This blog post is the last in the series of articles on migrating databases to Kubernetes with Percona Operators. Two [...]
October 8, 2021
Disaster Recovery for MongoDB on Kubernetes
As per the glossary, Disaster Recovery (DR) protocols are an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT [...]
October 7, 2021
Getting Started with ProxySQL in Kubernetes
There are plenty of ways to run ProxySQL in Kubernetes (K8S). For example, we can deploy sidecar containers on the [...]
September 22, 2021
Modern Web-Based Application Architecture 101
This article is meant to provide a high-level overview of how a web-based application is commonly structured nowadays. Keep in [...]
September 21, 2021
Making Aurora Write Latency 15x Higher (or More!) by Choosing a Bad Primary Key
Primary Key design is an important thing for InnoDB performance, and choosing a poor PK definition will have an impact [...]
September 17, 2021
Migration of a MySQL Database to a Kubernetes Cluster Using Asynchronous Replication
Nowadays, more and more companies are thinking about the migration of their infrastructure to Kubernetes. Databases are no exception. There [...]
September 13, 2021
MySQL/ZFS in the Cloud, Leveraging Ephemeral Storage
Here’s a second post focusing on the performance of MySQL on ZFS in cloud environments. In the first post, MySQL/ZFS [...]
September 2, 2021
Introducing xbcloud: Exponential Backoff Feature in Percona XtraBackup
Storing your data locally can impose security and availability risks. Major cloud providers have object storage services available to allow [...]
August 20, 2021
Understanding EBS Latency: Storage Type Performance in AWS
EBS storage type choices in AWS can be impacted by a lot of factors. As a consultant, I get a [...]
August 19, 2021
Dynamic User Creation with MySQL on Kubernetes and Hashicorp Cloud Platform Vault
You may have already seen this document which describes the integration between HashiCorp Vault and Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator [...]
July 28, 2021
Building and Testing Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator
Recently I wanted to play with the latest and greatest Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator which had a bug fix [...]
July 26, 2021
The 1-2-3 for PostgreSQL Logical Replication Using an RDS Snapshot
We have several PostgreSQL versions that support logical decoding to replicate data changes from a source database to a target [...]
July 13, 2021
Cluster Statuses in Percona Kubernetes Operators
In Kubernetes, all resources have a status field separated from their spec. The status field is an interface both for [...]
July 9, 2021
Streaming MySQL Binlogs to S3 (or Any Object Storage)
Problem Statement Having backups of binary logs is fairly normal these days. The more recent binary logs are copied offsite, [...]
June 24, 2021
Deploy a Dedicated Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 in Azure
This quickstart shows you how to use the Azure portal to deploy a dedicated Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 drop-in [...]
June 23, 2021
Boosting Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator Efficiency
Percona is well known for its offer of several outstanding fully open source, free-to-download software packages. And while Percona started [...]
June 23, 2021
Autoscaling Databases in Kubernetes for MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no [...]
June 23, 2021
MySQL on Kubernetes with GitOps
GitOps workflow was introduced by WeaveWorks as a way to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud-native applications. This technique quickly found [...]
June 10, 2021
Distributed Grant Management Using MongoDBAuthorizationGrant
MongoDB supports multiple authentication mechanisms, including the default one SCRAM, LDAP, Kerberos, and x.509 Certificate Authentication. In the X.509 system, [...]
June 2, 2021
Using the MongoDB Field Encryption Feature
One of the main topics we have today is surely about security. On a daily routine, this can pass unnoticed, [...]