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December 23, 2019
Shared Responsibility Model in the Cloud – Part 2
In an earlier post, I discussed the Shared Responsibility Model in the cloud and how it relates to databases. With [...]
December 20, 2019
Contention in MySQL InnoDB: Useful Info From the Semaphores Section
In a high concurrency world, where more and more users->connections->threads are used, contention is a given. But how do we [...]
December 19, 2019
MySQL Encryption: Master Key Encryption in InnoDB
In the previous blog post of this series, MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings, I described how keyrings work. In this [...]
December 19, 2019
Grafana Plugins and Percona Monitoring and Management
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is built upon the shoulder of giants like Prometheus and Grafana. And speaking of Grafana, [...]
December 19, 2019
The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL
As the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL has been around the block more than a few times. Traditionally installed [...]
December 19, 2019
Q & A on Webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps”
First I want to thank everyone who attended my December 5, 2019 webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps“. [...]
December 18, 2019
Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!
The innodb_io_capacity and innodb_io_capacity_max are often misunderstood InnoDB parameters. As consultants, we see, at least every month, people setting this [...]
December 18, 2019
Webinar 12/20: Pros and Cons of PCI/DSS Certification with MySQL
This talk uncovers which tools/plugins/settings you need to use to comply with PCI/DSS when using MySQL. Gain a solid grasp [...]
December 18, 2019
The Shared Responsibility Model of Security in the Cloud
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As [...]
December 17, 2019
Webinar 12/19: Top 3 Features of MySQL
MySQL has been ranked as the second most popular database since 2012 according to DB-Engines. Three features help it retain [...]
December 9, 2019
MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings
It has been possible to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL for a while now, but [...]
December 3, 2019
Percona Live 2020: Call For Papers
The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, January 22. Percona Live [...]
December 3, 2019
Webinar 12/5: Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps
MySQL does its best to return requested bytes as fast as possible. However, it needs human help to identify what [...]
November 26, 2019
Comparing S3 Streaming Tools with Percona XtraBackup
Making backups over the network can be done in two ways: either save on disk and transfer or just transfer [...]
November 22, 2019
MySQL UUIDs – Bad For Performance
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are [...]
November 22, 2019
Tips for Designing Grafana Dashboards
As Grafana powers our star product – Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – we have developed a lot of experience creating [...]
November 20, 2019
Profiling Software Using perf and Flame Graphs
In this blog post, we will see how to use perf (a.k.a.: perf_events) together with Flame Graphs. They are used [...]
November 19, 2019
Installing MySQL with Docker
I often need to install a certain version of MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server for MySQL to run some experiments, [...]
November 12, 2019
Watch Out for Disk I/O Performance Issues when Running EXT4
Recently, at Percona Live Europe 2019, Dimitri Kravchuk from Oracle mentioned that he observed some unclear drop in performance for [...]
November 4, 2019
Choose Your EC2 Instance Type Wisely on AWS
Recently I was doing some small testing by using EC2 instances on AWS and I noticed the execution time and [...]