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January 2, 2026
Running Databases on Kubernetes: A Practical Guide to Risks, Benefits, and Best Practices
As a database administrator, you are the guardian of the company’s most critical asset: its data. You live by performance, [...]
December 31, 2025
Building a Multi-Cloud Strategy: Cut Costs, Improve Resilience, and Avoid Lock-In
When you went all-in on the cloud, you were promised agility and savings. But sometimes, the reality feels very different. [...]
December 24, 2025
Kubernetes Operators Compared: The Key to Scalable, Cost-Efficient Databases
Choosing the right Kubernetes operator is one of those quiet decisions that ultimately defines your database strategy, affecting everything from [...]
December 23, 2025
Kubernetes Multi-Cloud Architecture: Building Portable Databases Without Lock-In
Most organizations now run across multiple clouds, pursuing flexibility, better pricing, or regional availability. But while stateless applications move freely, [...]
December 22, 2025
Memory Management in MongoDB 8.0: Testing the New TCMalloc
With MongoDB 8.0, the database engine takes another step forward in performance optimization, particularly in how it manages memory. One [...]
December 19, 2025
Improve Developer Velocity with Kubernetes Databases
Your company has invested heavily in agile development, microservices, and Kubernetes to move faster. Your app teams can spin up [...]
December 18, 2025
Introducing Percona Load Generator for MongoDB Clusters: The Benchmark Tool That Simulates Your Actual Application
If you have ever tuned a MongoDB cluster that passed every synthetic benchmark with flying colors, only to choke the [...]
December 17, 2025
Bridging the Gap: Querying PostgreSQL Tables from an Oracle Database
Database interoperability is a common requirement in enterprise environments. For users seeking to access Oracle data from a PostgreSQL instance, [...]
December 15, 2025
Perform Point-In-Time-Recovery (PITR) in Valkey/Redis
This article explains how you can perform Point-in-time-Recovery (PITR) in Valkey/Redis. Requirements To perform PITR, you need to have append-only [...]
December 11, 2025
A Christmas Carol of Two Databases
Being a Tale of Databases, Binary Logs, WAL Files, and the Redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge, DBA Part the First — [...]
December 10, 2025
Rotate SSL/TLS Certificates in Valkey/Redis Without Downtime
If your Valkey/Redis deployments use SSL/TLS, you will eventually need to rotate the TLS certificates. Perhaps it is because the [...]
December 9, 2025
How to Turn a MySQL Unique Key Into a Primary Key
A unique constraint specifies, one or more columns as unique it identifies. It is satisfied only when no two rows [...]
December 5, 2025
Community Erosion Post License Change: Quantifying the Power of Open Source
Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on [...]
December 1, 2025
Impact of Starting PostgreSQL Service Manually in an Active Patroni Cluster
A Nightmare no DBA wants One day, I had a nightmare, the kind every DBA fears. My manager called me [...]
November 25, 2025
Building the Future of MySQL: Announcing Plans for MySQL Vector Support and a MySQL Binlog Server
At Percona, our mission has always been to help you succeed with open source databases. We do that by listening [...]
November 24, 2025
Analyzing the Heartbeat of the MySQL Server: A Look at Repository Statistics
The MySQL database server is a foundational component of the open-source world. While its impact is undeniable, looking at the [...]
November 21, 2025
How to Deploy a Stand-By/Ad-Hoc Cluster Based on Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
This short blog post discusses how to use the capabilities of pgBackRest and streaming replication to set up both a [...]
November 20, 2025
Performing Standby Datacentre Promotions of a Patroni Cluster
Unlike the standard multi-node Postgres replication cluster, when managed by Patroni, all failovers are automatically executed. However, this is not [...]
November 19, 2025
Data Retention Policy Implementation – How and Why
Is your PostgreSQL database Feeling Sluggish? Are SQL statements taking more time than in earlier days? Are you experiencing performance [...]
November 14, 2025
A Tale of Two Databases: No-Op Updates in PostgreSQL and MySQL
I’m lazy when I’m speakin’ I’m lazy when I walk I’m lazy when I’m dancin’ I’m lazy when I talk [...]