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April 26, 2017
Percona Live 2017: Deploying MongoDB on Public Clouds
Today at Percona Live 2017, the afternoon is jam-packed with open source technology lectures filled with community members eager for [...]
April 26, 2017
Percona Live 2017: Day Two Keynotes
Welcome to the second day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the second set of Percona [...]
April 22, 2017
Better Than Linear Scaling
In this blog, we’ll look at how to achieve better-than-linear scaling. Scalability is the capability of a system, network or [...]
April 3, 2017
New MariaDB Dashboard in Percona Monitoring and Management Metrics Monitor
In honor of the upcoming MariaDB M17 conference in New York City on April 11-12, we have enhanced Percona Monitoring and [...]
March 15, 2017
Upgrading to Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 from Previous Versions
This post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, [...]
March 7, 2017
How to Change MongoDB Storage Engines Without Downtime
This blog is another in the series for the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. Today’s blog post is [...]
March 6, 2017
MySQL, –i-am-a-dummy!
In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last [...]
February 24, 2017
Synchronous Replication in MySQL: Galera vs. Group Replication
UPDATE: Some of the language in the original post was considered overly-critical of Oracle by some community members. This was [...]
February 1, 2017
WAN Synchronous Clusters: Dealing with Latency Using Concurrency
In this blog, we’ll discuss how to use concurrency to help with WAN latency when using synchronous clusters. WAN Latency [...]
January 20, 2017
How to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other [...]
December 27, 2016
Don’t Let a Leap Second Leap on Your Database!
This blog discusses how to prepare your database for the new leap second coming in the new year. At the [...]
December 16, 2016
MongoDB PIT Backups In Depth
In this blog is an in-depth discussion of MongoDB PIT backups. Note: INTIMIDATION FREE ZONE!! This post is meant to [...]
November 14, 2016
Using Vault with MySQL
Using Vault with MySQL In my previous post I discussed using GPG to secure your database credentials. This relies on [...]
September 28, 2016
7 Fresh Bugs in MySQL 8.0
This blog post will look at seven bugs in MySQL 8.0. Friday afternoon is always ideal for a quick look [...]
August 2, 2016
High Availability Poll Results
This blog reports the results of Percona’s high availability poll. High availability (HA) is always a hot topic. The reality [...]
August 13, 2015
MySQL Quality Assurance: A Vision for the Future by Roel Van de Paar (Final Episode 13)
Welcome to the final – but most important – episode in the MySQL QA Series. In it, I present my vision [...]
August 11, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 12: My server is crashing… Now what? For customers or users experiencing a crash
My server is crashing… Now what? This special episode in the MySQL QA Series is for customers or users experiencing a crash. [...]
August 4, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 11: Valgrind Testing: Pro’s, Con’s, Why and How
Today’s episode is all about Valgrind – from the pro’s to the con’s, from the why to the how! This episode [...]
July 31, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 10: Reproducing and Simplifying: How to get it Right
Welcome to the 10th episode in the MySQL QA series! Today we’ll talk about reproducing and simplifying: How to get [...]