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February 4, 2026
Semantic Caching for LLM Apps: Reduce Costs by 40-80% and Speed up by 250x
This post covers the topic of the video in more detail and includes some code samples. The $9,000 Problem You [...]
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February 3, 2026
Percona at 20: Why Our Open Source, Services-Led Model Still Works
In 2026, Percona turns 20. That milestone offers a good opportunity to pause and reflect, not just on where we [...]
February 2, 2026
Importance of Tuning Checkpoint in PostgreSQL
The topic of checkpoint tuning is frequently discussed in many blogs. However, I keep coming across cases where it is [...]
January 29, 2026
Rebuilding a Replica with MyDumper
When a replica fails due to corruption or drift, the standard solution is to rebuild it from a fresh copy [...]
January 28, 2026
Databases, Data Lakes, And Encryption
The Evolution of Object Storage Let’s start by stating something really obvious; object storage has become the preeminent storage system [...]
January 27, 2026
Automatic “Multi-Source” Async Replication Failover Using PXC Replication Manager
The replication manager script can be particularly useful in complex PXC/Galera topologies that require Async/Multi-source replication. This will ease the [...]
January 26, 2026
Back to Our Open Source Roots: Winding Down Percona ProBuilds
At Percona, open source is not just something we use. It is who we are. From our earliest days, our [...]
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January 23, 2026
MySQL January 2026 Performance Review
This article is focused on describing the latest performance benchmarking executed on the latest releases of Community MySQL, Percona Server [...]
January 22, 2026
Separating FUD and Reality: Has MySQL Really Been Abandoned?
Over the past weeks, we have seen renewed discussion/concern in the MySQL community around claims that “Oracle has stopped developing [...]
January 22, 2026
From Feature Request to Release: How Community Feedback Shaped PBM’s Alibaba Cloud Integration
At Percona, we’ve always believed that the best software isn’t built in a vacuum—it’s built in the open, fueled by [...]
January 21, 2026
The Evolution of Redis: From Cache to AI-Database (V1.0 to 8.4)
One of our founders, Peter Zaitsev took a look at Redis (Remote DIctionary Server) when it first emerged in 2009 [...]
January 20, 2026
What Oracle Missed, We Fixed: More Performant Query Processing in Percona Server for MySQL, Part 2
Remember when Percona significantly improved query processing time by fixing the optimizer bug? I have described all the details in [...]
January 16, 2026
Deploying Percona Operator for MySQL with OpenTaco for IaC Automation
Deploying databases on Kubernetes is getting easier every year. The part that still hurts is making deployments repeatable and predictable [...]
January 15, 2026
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2025 Wrap Up and What We Are Focusing on Next
In 2025, the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL put most of its energy into the things that matter when PostgreSQL is [...]
January 15, 2026
Announcing Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB: The Open Source Trail to Freedom
Migrating mission-critical databases is often compared to changing the engines on a plane while it’s in mid-flight. For MongoDB users, [...]
January 14, 2026
The Importance of Realistic Benchmark Workloads
Unveiling the Limits: A Performance Analysis of MongoDB Sharded Clusters with plgm In any database environment, assumptions are the enemy [...]
January 12, 2026
Using PXC Replication Manager to Auto Manage Both Source and Replica Failover in Galera-Based Environments
In this blog post, we will be discussing the PXC Replication Manager script/tool which basically facilitates both source and replica [...]
January 7, 2026
Introducing OpenEverest: An Independent Open Source Project for the Future of Data Platforms
Today, we are sharing an important step forward for the project many of you know as Percona Everest. Percona is [...]
January 6, 2026
Urgent Security Update: Patching “Mongobleed” (CVE-2025-14847) in Percona Server for MongoDB
At Percona, our mission has always been to provide the community with truly open-source, enterprise-class software. A critical part of [...]