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January 21, 2020
Ever Heard of Postgres?
Hello! My name is Robert and I am a PostgreSQL Consultant at Percona. I’ve been here since the summer of [...]
January 17, 2020
Upgrading PostgreSQL – Patroni Cluster and Switching from Python 2 to Python 3
Python 2 has officially completed its life as of Jan 1st, 2020 and the Python 2.x branch will not be [...]
January 15, 2020
Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part III of III
In this blog post, we will continue to explore Vitess and test an example database provided in its repository. This [...]
January 14, 2020
Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part II of III
In this blog post, I’d like to share some experiences in setting up a Vitess environment for local tests and [...]
January 14, 2020
Amazon RDS MySQL Minor Upgrades: Not So Fast!
The promise of DBaaS like RDS is to reduce operational overhead (among other things) and one of the stellar cases [...]
January 13, 2020
Introduction to Vitess on Kubernetes for MySQL – Part I of III
In this blog post series, we will discuss an overview of Vitess technology. Vitess is a database clustering solution for [...]
January 6, 2020
A Day in the Life of a Technical Account Manager
So, what do you do when you love technology but are ready for a change in the day-to-day activities of [...]
January 2, 2020
Implementing a Database Center of Excellence
In your organization, who decides what database platform will be utilized for that new application being built? For many groups, [...]
December 20, 2019
Contention in MySQL InnoDB: Useful Info From the Semaphores Section
In a high concurrency world, where more and more users->connections->threads are used, contention is a given. But how do we [...]
December 19, 2019
The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL
As the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL has been around the block more than a few times. Traditionally installed [...]
December 18, 2019
Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!
The innodb_io_capacity and innodb_io_capacity_max are often misunderstood InnoDB parameters. As consultants, we see, at least every month, people setting this [...]
December 17, 2019
Percona Backup for MongoDB in Action
We recently released Percona Backup for MongoDB(PBM) as GA. It’s our open source tool for taking a consistent backup of [...]
November 22, 2019
MySQL UUIDs – Bad For Performance
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are [...]
November 15, 2019
Don’t Use MongoDB Profiling Level 1
TLDR: It is not profile level 1 that is the problem; it’s a gotcha with the optional ‘slowms’ argument that [...]
November 11, 2019
Prepare Your Databases for High Traffic on Black Friday
It’s November, so we all know what that means; it’s peak shopping season, and no date is bigger than Black [...]
November 8, 2019
Configure HAProxy with PostgreSQL Using Built-in pgsql-check
We discussed one of the traditional ways to configure HAProxy with PostgreSQL in our previous blog about HAProxy using Xinetd. [...]
November 1, 2019
Use MySQL Without a Password (and Still be Secure)
Some say that the best password is the one you don’t have to remember. That’s possible with MySQL, thanks to [...]
October 31, 2019
PostgreSQL Application Connection Failover Using HAProxy with xinetd
Recently we published a blog about a very simple application failover using libpq features which could be the simplest of [...]
October 7, 2019
Centralization Vs. Decentralization of DBA Teams
As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), I have seen many of our clients adopt a decentralized DBA Team. In many [...]
October 4, 2019
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 (experimental release) : SST Improvements
Starting with the experimental release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0, we have made changes to the SST process to make [...]