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April 22, 2021
Demonstrating pg_rewind Using Linux Containers in PostgreSQL
These scripts demonstrate the command line interface, CLI, “pg_rewind” re-provisioning a formerly deprecated PRIMARY host, pg1, into a viable STANDBY. [...]
April 21, 2021
Back From a Long Sleep, MyDumper Lives!
MySQL databases keep getting larger and larger. And the larger the databases get, the harder it is to backup and [...]
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 16, 2021
Add Microsoft Azure Monitoring Within Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16.0
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020, according to DB-Engine’s DBMS of the Year [...]
April 15, 2021
Platform End of Support Announcement for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The End Of Support date for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming soon. According to the Ubuntu Release Life Cycle, it [...]
April 14, 2021
Win Percona Swag for Technical Product Reviews!
You can earn Percona swag by writing a short technical review about Percona software by May 30, 2021! The keyword [...]
April 14, 2021
What You Can Do With Auto-Failover and Percona Distribution for MySQL (8.0.x)
Where x is >= 22 😉 The Problem There are few things your data does not like. One is water [...]
April 14, 2021
Percona Distribution for MySQL: High Availability with Group Replication Solution
This blog provides high availability (HA) guidelines using group replication architecture and deployment recommendations in MySQL, based on our best [...]
April 7, 2021
MySQL 101: Basic MySQL Server Triage
So your MySQL server has crashed. What do you do now? When a server is down, in my opinion, there [...]
April 6, 2021
Monitoring OPNSense Firewall with Percona Monitoring and Management
I try to use Open Source when a good solution exists, so for my home firewall, I’m using OPNSense – [...]
April 1, 2021
Infinitely Scalable Storage with High Compression Feature
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from [...]
March 9, 2021
3 Percona Software Products Take the SourceForge Leader Award!
We are so grateful to all users of our software. Thanks to you, some of them have just been recognized [...]
February 24, 2021
Hoss Talks Foss: The Podcast is Now Available
Great news! Percona’s Community-focused podcast, hosted by none other than the HOSS (Head of Open Source Software) himself (yeah, that [...]
February 12, 2021
Tame Kubernetes Costs with Percona Monitoring and Management and Prometheus Operator
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering [...]
February 9, 2021
Monitoring a TP-Link Switch with Percona Monitoring and Management
I have a local Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance at home, which I use to look after my local [...]
February 8, 2021
DBaaS on Kubernetes: Under the Hood
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users [...]
February 5, 2021
FOSDEM Is This Weekend – Matt Yonkovit’s Must-See Sessions!
If you have not heard, this weekend is FOSDEM. FOSDEM this year is virtual (and open to all), and it [...]
February 2, 2021
Why SSPL is Bad For You, Part 2
After MongoDB switched to SSPL I wrote part one of this article, titled “Why MongoDB’s SSPL is Bad For You”. [...]
January 20, 2021
Drain Kubernetes Nodes… Wisely
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can [...]
January 20, 2021
Keeping Open Source Open, or, Why Open is Better
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license [...]