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August 26, 2025
Valkey 9.0: Enterprise-Ready, Open Source, and Coming September 29, 2025
Circle September 29th on your calendar! That’s when Valkey 9.0 officially drops, bringing enterprise-grade features that solve real operational headaches [...]
August 25, 2025
Don’t Trust, Verify: How MyDumper’s Checksums Validates Data Consistency
How do you know if your backup is truly reliable? The last thing you want is to discover your data [...]
August 22, 2025
MySQL 8.0 Deprecated Features: What You Need to Know
If you manage a MySQL database, you’ve probably heard the news: MySQL 8.0 is heading for its End of Life [...]
August 21, 2025
MySQL Router 8.4: How to Deal with Metadata Updates Overhead
It may be surprising when a new InnoDB Cluster is set up, and despite not being in production yet and completely idle, [...]
August 20, 2025
Deep Diving the Citus Distribution Models Along with Shard Balancing/Read Scaling
In my previous blog post, Integrating Citus with Patroni: Sharding and High Availability Together, I explored how to integrate Citus [...]
August 14, 2025
Top 5 Security Risks of Running MySQL 8.0 After Its EOL
Your MySQL database has been running smoothly for years. Your team knows it inside and out. Everything just… works. Why [...]
August 7, 2025
LDAP Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Is Our Support for Percona Server for MongoDB
As enterprise software vendors race toward proprietary cloud ecosystems, some features long relied upon by businesses are being quietly deprecated. [...]
August 5, 2025
Planning Ahead for PostgreSQL 18: What Matters for Your Organization
PostgreSQL 18 is on the way, bringing a set of improvements that many organizations will find useful. It’s not a [...]
August 4, 2025
Integrating Citus with Patroni: Sharding and High Availability Together
Citus is a PostgreSQL extension developed with the intention of sharding and distributing the data across multiple machines. It offers [...]
August 2, 2025
Enhancing PostgreSQL Security: How to Encrypt the pgBackRest Repository
This post was originally written in 2023 and was updated in 2025. Encryption protects sensitive information by converting it into [...]
August 2, 2025
PostgreSQL Database Security: External Server-Based Authentication
This post was originally written in 2023 and was updated in 2025. Protecting sensitive information in PostgreSQL starts with strong [...]
July 31, 2025
Scalability for the Large-Scale: File Copy-Based Initial Sync for Percona Server for MongoDB
On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB, I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server [...]
July 30, 2025
A Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Replication with Both Asynchronous and Synchronous Standbys
PostgreSQL streaming replication allows a standby server to continuously replicate data from a primary server. It operates by streaming Write-Ahead [...]
July 28, 2025
How to Perform Rolling Index Builds with Percona Operator for MongoDB
This post explains how to perform a Rolling Index Build on a Kubernetes environment running Percona Operator for MongoDB. Why [...]
July 28, 2025
Public Schema Security Upgrade in PostgreSQL 15
This post was originally published in 2023 and was updated in 2025. Security is always a moving target, and PostgreSQL [...]
July 23, 2025
The Quirks of Index Maintenance in Open Source Databases
Index maintenance can be a real challenge for anyone managing databases, and what makes it even trickier is that open [...]
July 22, 2025
Diagnosing MySQL Crashes on RHEL with GDB: How to Identify the Database, Table, and Query Involved
When troubleshooting a MySQL crash, having only the error log is rarely enough to pinpoint the exact root cause. To [...]
July 21, 2025
Using replicaSetHorizons in MongoDB
When running MongoDB replica sets in containerized environments like Docker or Kubernetes, making nodes reachable from inside the cluster as [...]
July 18, 2025
How Can AI Talk to My Database Part Two: MySQL and Gemini
My first experiments creating an MCP Server to provide AI access to a PostgreSQL database using the FastMCP Python framework [...]
July 17, 2025
How Can AI Talk to My (PostgreSQL) Database?
I admittedly have some work to do to catch up with the AI “trend”. It’s been around (as in, easily [...]