by Dave Avery | Feb 8, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices...
by Jervin Real | Jan 31, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The Aurora hash join feature for relational databases has been around for a while now. But unlike MySQL Block Nested Loop algorithm, an Aurora hash join only caters to a specific number of use cases. When implemented with the optimizer properly, they can provide great...
by Dave Avery | Jan 15, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Early Bird registration discounts are available until...
by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 3, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
In 2017 we have welcomed many new customers into the Percona fold. It’s always interesting to find out what challenges the Percona team helped them to address and how they chose their relationship with Percona. As unbiased champions of open source database software,...
by Michael Coburn | Dec 28, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at how to monitor Amazon Aurora using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). One impact of the growth of web services such as AWS on DBAs is the need to understand and report on database and application resource usage. DBAs have always...
by Dave Avery | Dec 14, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Fill out a quick survey on your cloud database plans. Today, keeping your enterprise agile and flexible is not just an advantage, it is a requirement. Many of the systems and processes once controlled by businesses onsite are moving offsite to “service” models. This...
by Tim Sharp | Dec 12, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona Technical Account Manager Tim Sharp, Percona Senior MySQL DBA for Managed Services Dov Endress, and Lookout Director of Engineering Michael Fortson as they present Best Practices When Right-Sizing Your Aurora Footprint on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at...
by Colin Charles | Dec 1, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The CFP for Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 closes December 22, 2017: please consider submitting as soon as possible. We want...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 28, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog post I’ll look at the performance of Percona XtraDB Cluster on AWS using different service instances, and recommend some best practices for maximizing performance. You can use Percona XtraDB Cluster in AWS environments. We often get questions about...
by Emily Ikuta | Oct 3, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Databases in the Hosted Cloud on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Today you can use hosted MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server for MySQL/PostgreSQL in several...
by Tyler Duzan | Sep 21, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Services
This blog post will give a brief overview of Amazon RDS capabilities and limitations, and how Percona Support can help you succeed in your Amazon RDS deployments. One of the common questions that we get from customers and prospective customers is about Percona Support...
by Nik Vyzas | Aug 9, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at some tips on how to configure Aurora parameters on Amazon RDS. I was recently deploying a few Aurora RDS instances, a process very similar to configuring a regular RDS instance. I noticed a few minor differences in the way you...
by Dave Avery | Apr 28, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
From everyone at Percona and Percona Live 2017, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s conference. This year’s conference was an outstanding success! The event brought the open source database community...
by Dave Avery | Apr 27, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Live
The last day of Percona Live 2017 is still going strong, with talks all the way until 4:00 pm (and closing remarks and a prize giveaway on the main stage then). I’m going to a few more sessions today, including one from Stephane Combaudon from Slice...
by Dave Avery | Mar 13, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer Dimitri Vanoverbeke on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Register Now This webinar covers the many challenges faced when migrating applications...
by Manjot Singh | Mar 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MySQL, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last week with AWS), and how to avoid them in MySQL using --i-am-a-dummy. Recently, AWS had some serious downtime in their East region, which they...
by Dave Avery | Jan 24, 2017 | MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Jon Tobin, Director of Solution Engineering at Percona, and Rob Masson, Solutions Architect Manager at ScaleArc, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST (UTC-8) for their webinar “Overcoming the Challenges of...
by Rick Golba | Nov 11, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
This blog post discusses the differences between the Amazon AWS service tiers. Many people want to move to an Amazon environment but are unsure what AWS service makes the most sense (EC2, RDS, Aurora). For database services, the tiering at Amazon starts with EC2, then...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 1, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, we’ll use some test results to look at the rationale for using provisioned IOPS volumes for AWS databases. One piece of advice you often hear running MySQL, MongoDB or other databases in the AWS EC2 environment is that you should use volumes with...
by Marco Tusa | May 26, 2016 | MySQL
Some time ago, I published the article on AWS Aurora Benchmarking (AWS Aurora Benchmarking – Blast or Splash?), in which I analyzed the behavior of different solutions using synchronous replication in AWS environment. This blog follows up with some of the...
