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November 14, 2014
RDS for Aurora unveiled at AWS re:Invent
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The [...]
November 14, 2014
Q&A: Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA solution for OpenStack
Thanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” [...]
November 14, 2014
Optimizing MySQL for Zabbix
This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I [...]
November 13, 2014
Percona Live London 2014 Wrap Up
The 2014 edition of Percona Live London brought together attendees from 30 countries to hear insightful talks from leaders in [...]
November 12, 2014
Log rotate and the (deleted) MySQL log file mystery
Did your logging stop working after you set up logrotate? Then this post might be for you. Some time ago, [...]
November 11, 2014
OpenStack Live Call for Proposals closes November 16
The OpenStack Live conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-14, 2015) will emphasize the essential elements of making OpenStack perform better [...]
November 10, 2014
Percona at AWS re:Invent and events around the world
November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo [...]
November 6, 2014
OpenStack MySQL HA Solution = Percona XtraDB Cluster: Webinar
MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the [...]
November 1, 2014
Backup and restore of MySQL to OpenStack Swift
MySQL database usage is popular in OpenStack. Core OpenStack services for Compute (Nova), Storage (Cinder), Neutron (Networking), Image (Glance) and [...]
October 29, 2014
MySQL and Openstack deep dive talk at OpenStack Paris Summit (and more!)
I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. [...]
October 28, 2014
How to deal with MySQL deadlocks
A deadlock in MySQL happens when two or more transactions mutually hold and request for locks, creating a cycle of [...]
October 20, 2014
Autumn: A season of MySQL-related conferences. Here’s my list
Autumn is a season of MySQL-related conferences and I’m about to hit the road to speak and attend quite a [...]
October 15, 2014
Rackspace doubling-down on open-source databases, Percona Server
Founded in 1998, Rackspace has evolved over the years to address the way customers are using data – and more [...]
October 8, 2014
MySQL Replication: ‘Got fatal error 1236’ causes and cures
MySQL replication is a core process for maintaining multiple copies of data – and replication is a very important aspect [...]
October 7, 2014
MySQL ring replication: Why it is a bad option
I’ve recently worked with customers using replication rings with 4+ servers; several servers accepting writes. The idea behind this design [...]
October 3, 2014
HAProxy: Give me some logs on CentOS 6.5!
HAProxy is frequently used as a load-balancer in front of a Galera cluster. While diagnosing an issue with HAProxy configuration, [...]
September 29, 2014
MySQL & OpenStack: How to overcome issues as your dataset grows
MySQL is the database of choice for most OpenStack components (Ceilometer is a notable exception). If you start with a [...]
September 25, 2014
More then 1000 columns – get transactional with TokuDB
Recently I encountered a specific situation in which a customer was forced to stay with the MyISAM engine due to [...]
September 24, 2014
Percona Server, OpenStack and the Tesora DBaaS Platform
Percona Server and Percona XtraDB Cluster provide high-performance alternatives for MySQL users. We have also seen rapidly growing interest in [...]
September 19, 2014
MySQL Upgrade Best Practices
MySQL upgrades are necessary tasks and we field a variety of questions here at Percona Support regarding MySQL upgrade best [...]