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August 19, 2014
Measuring failover time for ScaleArc load balancer
ScaleArc hired Percona to benchmark failover times for the ScaleArc database traffic management software in different scenarios. We tested failover [...]
August 18, 2014
Getting my hands dirty on an OpenStack lab
Like you all may know, OpenStack is currently one of the coolest open source projects, so I was thrilled when I [...]
August 15, 2014
Make a difference! See the world! Speak at Percona Live London; Santa Clara!
Twice each year members of the global open-source community converge on London in November and Santa Clara in April to [...]
August 12, 2014
Benchmarking IBM eXFlash™ DIMM with sysbench fileio
Diablo Technologies engaged Percona to benchmark IBM eXFlash™ DIMMs in various aspects. An eXFlash™ DIMM itself is quite an interesting piece [...]
August 5, 2014
New in Percona Replication Manager: Slave resync, Async stop
Percona Replication Manager (PRM) continues to evolve and improve, I want to introduce two new features: Slave resync and Async [...]
August 4, 2014
Q&A: Putting MySQL Fabric to use
Martin Arrieta and I gave an online presentation last week on “Putting MySQL Fabric To Use.” If you missed it, you [...]
August 4, 2014
Advanced MySQL Query Tuning (Aug. 6) and MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema (Aug. 13) webinars
I will be presenting two webinars in August: Aug 6, 10 a.m. PDT: Advanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and Beyond [...]
August 1, 2014
Paris OpenStack Summit Voting – Percona Submits 16 MySQL Talks
MySQL plays a critical role in OpenStack. It serves as the host database supporting most components such as Nova, Glance, [...]
July 30, 2014
Examining the TokuDB MySQL storage engine file structure
As we know different storage engines in MySQL have different file structures. Every table in MySQL 5.6 must have a [...]
July 29, 2014
Prevent MySQL ERROR 1040 (00000): Too many connections
One of the common causes of downtime with MySQL is running out of connections. Have you ever seen this error? [...]
July 28, 2014
What I learned while migrating a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS
Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational [...]
July 25, 2014
Monitoring MySQL flow control in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Monitoring flow control in a Galera cluster is very important. If you do not, you will not understand why writes [...]
July 24, 2014
DBaaS, OpenStack and Trove 101: Introduction to the basics
We’ll be publishing a series of posts on OpenStack and Trove over the next few weeks, diving into their usage [...]
July 22, 2014
Reference architecture for a write-intensive MySQL deployment
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, [...]
July 21, 2014
A schema change inconsistency with Galera Cluster for MySQL
I recently worked on a case where one node of a Galera cluster had its schema desynchronized with the other [...]
July 18, 2014
Systemtap solves phantom MySQLd SIGTERM / SIGKILL issue
The Percona Managed Services team recently faced a somewhat peculiar client issue. We’d receive pages about their MySQL service being unreachable. [...]
July 16, 2014
High Availability with mysqlnd_ms | Percona XtraDB Cluster
This is the second part of my series on High Availability with mysqlnd_ms. In my first post, “Simple MySQL Master HA [...]
July 11, 2014
Managing shards of MySQL databases with MySQL Fabric
This is the fourth post in our MySQL Fabric series. In case you’re joining us now, we started with an introductory post, [...]
July 9, 2014
TokuDB gotchas: slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES
We are using Percona Server + TokuDB engine extensively in Percona Cloud Tools and getting real usage operational experience with [...]
July 9, 2014
Check for MySQL slave lag with Percona Toolkit plugin for Tungsten Replicator
A while back, I made some changes to the plugin interface for pt-online-schema-change which allows custom replication checks to be [...]