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January 23, 2018
20-30% Performance Hit from the Spectre Bug Fix on Ubuntu
In this blog post, we’ll look at the performance hit from the Spectre bug fix on Ubuntu. Recently we measured [...]
January 18, 2018
Does the Meltdown Fix Affect Performance for MySQL on Bare Metal?
In this blog post, we’ll look at does the Meltdown fix affect performance for MySQL on bare metal servers. Since [...]
January 15, 2018
ProxySQL Firewalling
In this blog post, we’ll look at ProxySQL firewalling (how to use ProxySQL as a firewall). Not long ago we [...]
January 4, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre: CPU Security Vulnerabilities
In this blog post, we examine the recent revelations about CPU security vulnerabilities. The beginning of the new year also brings [...]
December 27, 2017
The hidepid Options for /proc and Percona XtraDB Cluster Don’t Play Well Together
In this blog, we’ll look at how the hidepid options for /proc and Percona XtraDB Cluster can fight with one [...]
December 15, 2017
MongoDB 3.6 Security Improvements
In this blog post, we’ll look at MongoDB 3.6 security improvements. As we’ve already talked about in this series, MongoDB [...]
November 6, 2017
MongoDB Security: Using LDAP Authentication
In this blog post, we’ll focus on MongoDB security and discuss how to configure Percona Server for MongoDB to authenticate a [...]
September 19, 2017
ProxySQL Improves MySQL SSL Connections
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance. When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main [...]
September 5, 2017
Revenge of Ransomware! MongoDB Security in the News Again . . .
A new set of MongoDB attacks and data breaches struck businesses this weekend, mirroring the attacks that hit back in [...]
August 24, 2017
Percona Live Europe Featured Talks: A Quick Tour of MySQL 8.0 Roles with Giuseppe Maxia
Welcome to our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a [...]
August 7, 2017
Webinar Wednesday August 9, 2017: MongoDB Security – Making Things Secure by Default
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Security: Making Things Secure by Default on Wednesday, [...]
July 31, 2017
Webinar Wednesday August 2, 2017: MySQL Disk Encryption with LUKS
Join Percona’s, Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm as he presents MySQL Disk Encryption with LUKS on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at [...]
July 13, 2017
Setting Up Percona PAM with Active Directory for External Authentication
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication. In [...]
July 10, 2017
Webinar Tuesday July 11, 2017: Securing Your MySQL/MariaDB Data
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Securing Your MySQL/MariaDB Data on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 7:00 [...]
June 28, 2017
MySQL Encryption at Rest – Part 2 (InnoDB)
Welcome to Part 2 in a series of blog posts on MySQL encryption at rest. This post covers InnoDB tablespace [...]
June 27, 2017
SSL Connections in MySQL 5.7
This blog post looks at SSL connections and how they work in MySQL 5.7. Recently I was working on an [...]
June 6, 2017
MySQL Encryption at Rest – Part 1 (LUKS)
In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest. At Percona, we work [...]
May 17, 2017
MongoDB Authentication and Roles: Creating Your First Personalized Role
In this blog post, we’ll walk through the native MongoDB authentication and roles, and learn how to create personalized roles. [...]
April 23, 2017
Percona XtraDB Cluster: “dh key too small” error during an SST using SSL
If you’ve tried to use SSL in Percona XtraDB Cluster and saw an error in the logs like SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key [...]
April 21, 2017
Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with Secrets
This quick post demonstrates using Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with some new authentication provisioning practices. Some small changes to [...]