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June 2, 2021
Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 2: Knowing the Server
In part 1 of this series, we introduced you to the approach used by the Percona Support team to inspect [...]
June 1, 2021
Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 1: The Percona Support Way
When I joined the Percona Support team in early 2013, MySQL 5.6 was being launched. I remember all the buzz [...]
April 28, 2021
Resolving the MySQL Active-Active Replication Dilemma
Multi-writer replication has been a challenge in the MySQL ecosystem for years before truly dedicated solutions were introduced – first [...]
April 27, 2021
Percona Monthly Bug Report: April 2021
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the [...]
April 23, 2021
Yearly Reminder: DDLs That Fail to Propagate May Cause Percona XtraDB Cluster Inconsistencies
Apologies for the silly title, but the issue is a real one, even though it is not a new thing. [...]
April 19, 2021
MySQL Group Replication: Conversion of GR Member to Async Replica (and Back) In the Same Cluster
MySQL Group Replication is a plugin that helps to implement highly available fault-tolerant replication topologies. In this blog, I am [...]
April 16, 2021
Integrated Alerting Design in Percona Monitoring and Management
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.13 (PMM) introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. It adds a user-friendly way [...]
April 12, 2021
Replay the Execution of MySQL With RR (Record and Replay)
Chasing bugs can be a tedious task, and multi-threaded software doesn’t make it any easier. Threads will be scheduled at [...]
March 30, 2021
How To Automate Dashboard Importing in Percona Monitoring and Management
In this blog post, I’ll look at how to import custom dashboards into Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.x, and [...]
March 26, 2021
Overview of MySQL Alternative Storage Engines
For MySQL, MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines are very popular. Currently, we are mostly using InnoDB engines for high reliability [...]
March 25, 2021
The Steps Involved in Creating a Percona Product Release
Have you ever wondered what it takes to complete Percona Server for MySQL (PS), Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and Percona [...]
March 23, 2021
Is a Session Analyzer a Good Tool to Simulate Real Traffic?
Starting a long time ago, we wanted to reproduce workload in a non-production environment, and there were different attempts to [...]
March 22, 2021
Storing Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB Secrets in Github
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a [...]
February 26, 2021
Connection Queuing in pgBouncer: Is it a Magical Remedy?
Yes, this post is about connection queueing, not just pooling. Because “connection pooling” – pre-created connections as a pool – [...]
February 25, 2021
Percona Monthly Bug Report: February 2021
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best [...]
February 17, 2021
The Most Important Skills for an SRE, DBRE, or DBA
I have talked extensively about the DBA’s evolving role and how many DBA’s and operations professionals are now becoming SRE’s [...]
February 15, 2021
Bare Systemd Method to Create an XFS Mount
For MongoDB data directories only XFS is recommended. The ext4 filesystem isn’t so bad but when there are a very, [...]
February 15, 2021
Top 5 Features Developers Love About MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the most admired and effortless NoSQL databases to set up. Developers want to spend time building [...]
February 9, 2021
MongoDB Sharding & Replication 101 – The Community’s Questions Answered!
A few weeks ago I sat down and talked about tuning MongoDB memory settings with Mike Grayson, one of our [...]
January 28, 2021
How to Create PostgreSQL Custom Builds and Debian Packages
Some time ago, I required a specific version of PostgreSQL. After searching on all the repositories, I was unable to [...]