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March 24, 2025
Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro: Reduce Server Locking by up to 4300X
When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona [...]
March 1, 2025
5 Effective Strategies for MongoDB Performance Tuning
This blog was published in January of 2021 and updated in March of 2025. Effective MongoDB performance tuning is crucial [...]
February 2, 2025
MongoDB Indexes Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Better MongoDB Performance
This blog was originally published in March 2021 and was updated in February 2025. Good intentions can sometimes end up [...]
January 14, 2025
What Hurts in PostgreSQL Part One: Temporary Tables
PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful database systems in the world. I have always been passionate about its great [...]
December 20, 2024
MySQL Transaction ERROR 1412 and Isolation Levels
This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific [...]
December 18, 2024
How To Deal with a AUTO_INCREMENT Max Value Problem in MySQL and MariaDB
An application down due to not being able to write into a table anymore due to a maximum allowed auto-increment [...]
September 5, 2024
How to Upgrade a Kubernetes Cluster
I still remember upgrading a Kubernetes cluster for the first time. Despite taking great care and following all the documentation, [...]
August 8, 2024
MySQL Router and RestAPI – What Do They Have in Common?
The usage of MySQL Router as a Middleware/Proxy/Router has increased along with the rise in MySQL InnoDB Cluster usage. While [...]
July 8, 2024
Ensure the Correct Repositories are Enabled for Percona Packages
As announced in Percona’s Important Update, effective July 1st, the percona/original and tools repositories will no longer be updated. This [...]
June 24, 2024
Understanding Basic Flow Control Activity in MySQL Group Replication: Part One
Flow control is not a new term, and we have already heard it a lot of times in Percona XtraDB [...]
June 5, 2024
Administering a Patroni Managed PostgreSQL Cluster
There are quite a number of methods these days for installing Patroni. I want to discuss the next step, which [...]
May 28, 2024
Valkey/Redis Sharding Using the Native Clustering Feature
In this blog post, we are going to implement the concept of sharding in a Valkey setup. This is a [...]
May 24, 2024
Upcoming Percona University Events – France, Germany, and India
Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, [...]
May 23, 2024
Beyond Cloud: The Impact of AI Agents on Platform Engineering
In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal [...]
May 16, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Not-So-Good Practices
As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things [...]
May 15, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Configuration Best Practices
In a few of our previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to get started with Valkey/Redis by running a simple [...]
May 14, 2024
Valkey/Redis: The Hash Datatype
In our previous blogs, we discussed the basic data types available in Valkey/Redis: Strings, Lists, Sets, and Sorted Sets. In [...]
May 13, 2024
Valkey/Redis Replication and Auto-Failover With Sentinel Service
In this Valkey blog post, I will demonstrate how we can set up a simple replication process among the Valkey [...]
May 9, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Sets and Sorted Sets
In our previous post, we welcomed Valkey (an open source fork of Redis) to the Percona family. We also learned [...]
May 7, 2024
Hello World… Hello Valkey! Let’s Get Started!
Welcome Valkey to the Percona family! We are excited to have you join our team of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB [...]