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June 23, 2021
Boosting Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator Efficiency
Percona is well known for its offer of several outstanding fully open source, free-to-download software packages. And while Percona started [...]
June 23, 2021
Autoscaling Databases in Kubernetes for MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no [...]
June 23, 2021
MySQL on Kubernetes with GitOps
GitOps workflow was introduced by WeaveWorks as a way to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud-native applications. This technique quickly found [...]
June 18, 2021
ProxySQL-Admin 2.x: Encryption of Credential Information
Starting with the release of proxysql-admin 2.0.15, the proxysql-admin 2.x series can now encrypt the credentials needed to access proxysql [...]
June 17, 2021
Chaos Testing Leads to More Stable Percona XtraDB Cluster
In my talk at Percona Live 2021, “Creating Chaos in Databases”, I discussed how creating a controlled interruption in available resources [...]
June 15, 2021
MySQL Static and Dynamic Privileges (Part 2)
When organizing things helps to simplify life. In the previous article, we start to explore dynamic privileges and the interaction [...]
June 15, 2021
MySQL Static and Dynamic Privileges (Part 1)
When trying to make things better, make it very complicated. I was working on a Security Threat Tool script when [...]
June 14, 2021
Migrating Into Kubernetes Running the Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator
The practice of running databases in containers continues to grow in popularity. As a Technical Account Manager at Percona, I [...]
June 10, 2021
Self-Healing Feature in Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator
In the previous release of our Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator, we implemented one interesting feature, which can be seen [...]
June 8, 2021
Restore Strategies with MyDumper
In my previous post Back From a Long Sleep, MyDumper Lives!, I told you that Fast Index Creation was in [...]
June 4, 2021
Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 4: An Engine in Motion
The combination of the information obtained from the “pt-summaries” discussed in the previous posts of this series (Part 1: The [...]
June 3, 2021
Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 3: What MySQL?
In the previous post of this series, we looked at the hardware specifications and operating system settings of the host [...]
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
Skipping Percona Server for MySQL Version 8.0.24 and Releasing 8.0.25 Next
After Oracle released MySQL version 8.0.24 on April 20, 2021, our engineering team got started right away with merging our [...]
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 [...]
May 27, 2021
How InnoDB Handles TEXT/BLOB Columns
Recently we had a debate in the consulting team about how InnoDB handles TEXT/BLOB columns. More specifically, the argument was [...]
May 21, 2021
Heads-Up: TokuDB Support Changes and Future Removal from Percona Server for MySQL 8.0
Back in December 2018, when we announced the general availability of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, we also announced that [...]
May 20, 2021
Manage MySQL Users with Kubernetes
Quite a common request that we receive from the community and customers is to provide a way to manage database [...]
May 20, 2021
New Features in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14 was released last week and I wanted to take a minute to call out some [...]
May 19, 2021
Percona Monitoring and Management DBaaS Overview and Technical Details
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a [...]