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December 12, 2025
Support for Crunchy Hardened PostgreSQL Ends Soon: Don’t Get Caught Off Guard.
Support shifts for hardened builds draw quick attention in regulated sectors, so when discussions surface about the future of a [...]
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December 11, 2025
A Christmas Carol of Two Databases
Being a Tale of Databases, Binary Logs, WAL Files, and the Redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge, DBA Part the First — [...]
December 10, 2025
Rotate SSL/TLS Certificates in Valkey/Redis Without Downtime
If your Valkey/Redis deployments use SSL/TLS, you will eventually need to rotate the TLS certificates. Perhaps it is because the [...]
December 9, 2025
How to Turn a MySQL Unique Key Into a Primary Key
A unique constraint specifies, one or more columns as unique it identifies. It is satisfied only when no two rows [...]
December 8, 2025
Unlocking Secure Connections: SSL/TLS Support in Percona Toolkit
In today’s interconnected world, data security is paramount. Protecting sensitive information transmitted between applications and databases is crucial, and SSL/TLS [...]
December 5, 2025
Community Erosion Post License Change: Quantifying the Power of Open Source
Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on [...]
December 4, 2025
Cloud-Native MySQL High Availability: Understanding Virtually SYNC and ASYNC Replication
When we run databases in Kubernetes, we quickly learn one important truth: things will fail, and we need to be [...]
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December 3, 2025
Expanding Our Reach: Percona Server for MongoDB Now Officially Supports Rocky Linux 8 and 9!
Your stack, Your rules. That’s our belief, and it’s non-negotiable. We see the landscape changing. With the massive community migration [...]
December 2, 2025
We Believe in Freedom
Percona is built on the belief that Freedom matters, especially in how organizations run and evolve their database infrastructure. Our [...]
December 1, 2025
Impact of Starting PostgreSQL Service Manually in an Active Patroni Cluster
A Nightmare no DBA wants One day, I had a nightmare, the kind every DBA fears. My manager called me [...]
November 26, 2025
Let’s Rebuild the MySQL Community Together
Where We Are We can all agree that the MySQL ecosystem isn’t in great shape right now. Take a look [...]
November 25, 2025
Building the Future of MySQL: Announcing Plans for MySQL Vector Support and a MySQL Binlog Server
At Percona, our mission has always been to help you succeed with open source databases. We do that by listening [...]
November 24, 2025
Analyzing the Heartbeat of the MySQL Server: A Look at Repository Statistics
The MySQL database server is a foundational component of the open-source world. While its impact is undeniable, looking at the [...]
November 21, 2025
How to Deploy a Stand-By/Ad-Hoc Cluster Based on Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
This short blog post discusses how to use the capabilities of pgBackRest and streaming replication to set up both a [...]
November 20, 2025
Performing Standby Datacentre Promotions of a Patroni Cluster
Unlike the standard multi-node Postgres replication cluster, when managed by Patroni, all failovers are automatically executed. However, this is not [...]
November 19, 2025
Data Retention Policy Implementation – How and Why
Is your PostgreSQL database Feeling Sluggish? Are SQL statements taking more time than in earlier days? Are you experiencing performance [...]
November 18, 2025
Introducing the GA Release of the New Percona Operator for MySQL: More Replication Options on Kubernetes
The Percona Cloud Native team is happy to announce the general availability of the Percona Operator for MySQL, based on [...]
November 14, 2025
A Tale of Two Databases: No-Op Updates in PostgreSQL and MySQL
I’m lazy when I’m speakin’ I’m lazy when I walk I’m lazy when I’m dancin’ I’m lazy when I talk [...]
November 13, 2025
Distributing Data in a Redis/Valkey Cluster: Slots, Hash Tags, and Hot Spots
When scaling Redis or its open source fork Valkey, a single instance can cause a bottleneck. The solution is to [...]