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April 26, 2023
Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?
Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a [...]
February 9, 2023
Database Housekeeping in the New Year
Welcome to 2023! Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. First, how [...]
January 24, 2023
Backup Databases on Kubernetes With VolumeSnapshots
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand [...]
December 23, 2022
Rebuild Patroni Replica Using pgBackRest
Patroni is one of the most used high availability (HA) solutions with the PostgreSQL database. It uses a Distributed Configuration [...]
December 15, 2022
JSON and Relational Databases – Part One
JSON data and relational databases have traditionally been diametric opposites. One is very free form with minimal rules on the [...]
December 7, 2022
PostgreSQL 14 Internals Book
There is an interesting project by the folks at PostgresPro that is translating Egor Rogov’s PostgreSQL 14 Internals into English. [...]
December 2, 2022
Using Liquibase as a Solution for Deploying and Tracking MySQL Schema Changes
Database-as-code service is a new concept and gaining some popularity in recent years. As we already know, we have deployment [...]
December 2, 2022
Hacktoberfest Results – Percona Honors the Contributors
Participating in various community activities can be rewarding in different aspects. Many community members joined Hacktoberfest this year and contributed [...]
November 28, 2022
Cloud of Serfdom or Cloud of Freedom – What Would You Choose?
At its core, the cloud is a fantastic innovation — I do not think many of us will long for [...]
November 3, 2022
Raspberry on the Rocks: Build Percona Server for MySQL With MyRocks on Your Raspberry Pi
Raspberry PI is a small single-board computer (SBCs) developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. This tiny [...]
November 1, 2022
How to Generate Test Data for MySQL With Python
For testing purposes, especially if you’re working on a project that uses any database technology to store information, you may [...]
October 13, 2022
Using ClickHouse as an Analytic Extension for MySQL
MySQL is an outstanding database for online transaction processing. With suitable hardware, it is easy to execute more than 1M [...]
September 21, 2022
Contribute to Open Source With Percona and Hacktoberfest
October is close, and it is time for Hacktoberfest! If you love open source as much as we do, this [...]
September 9, 2022
Open Source Bait and Switch: Licensing and Beyond
Another day, another company announces it changed its license away from open source while claiming “We Believe In A Model [...]
September 2, 2022
Working With PostgreSQL Dump Manifests
After working with PostgreSQL for so many years it’s sometimes surprising to see some of the utilities, to a certain [...]
August 11, 2022
Window Functions in MySQL 8.0
I have recently written an article for this blog presenting Window Functions for MongoDB 5.0. I used some public Italian [...]
August 3, 2022
OS Platform End of Life (EOL) Announcement for Debian Linux 9
After having been in long-term support (LTS) for the past two years, Debian 9 (“Stretch”) has now reached End of [...]
July 11, 2022
Percona Operator for MySQL Supports Group Replication
There are two Operators at Percona to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes: one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), production-ready [...]
June 30, 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Database Corruption: Part 1 – An Overview
Though I am writing this post being a PostgreSQL DBA, this page can be read by anyone because the concept [...]
June 29, 2022
Window Functions in MongoDB 5.0
I have already presented in previous posts some of the new features available on MongoDB 5.0: resharding and time series [...]