by David Quilty | Nov 9, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. But for those who are not so familiar, in this...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 2, 2023 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software
On October 24th, the Percona Kubernetes Squad held the first Ask-me-Anything (AMA) session to address inquiries regarding the utilization of Kubernetes for database deployment. This blog post will outline the top three questions raised during the session and provide...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 18, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the release of Percona Operator for MongoDB v.1.15.0. This release consists of various enhancements and bug fixes. In this blog post, we will look into some of the most interesting features. Reduce Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with...
by Juan Arruti | Oct 12, 2023 | Cloud, Monitoring, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll review how to run Linux profilers such as perf and produce flame graphs on Kubernetes environments. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls. It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. They...
by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Oct 10, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Performing an operation is always challenging when dealing with K8s. When on-prem or DBaaS like RDS or Cloud SQL, it is relatively straightforward to apply a change. You can perform a DIRECT ALTER, use a tool such as pt-osc, or even, for certain cases where async...
by Fernando Mattera | Aug 1, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Hello friends! If you plan to migrate your database from on-prem servers to RDS (either Aurora or MySQL RDS), you usually don’t have much choice but to do so using logical backups such as mysqldump, mysqlpump, mydumper, or similar. (Actually, you could do a...
by Michal Nosek | May 9, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Many MongoDB clusters use storage-level snapshots to provide fast and reliable backups. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to restore such a snapshot from a traditional VM-based sharded MongoDB cluster to a freshly deployed Percona Operator for MongoDB cluster on...
by Francisco Bordenave | May 1, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 28, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. One key to rule them all —...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Mar 16, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Let’s look at how you can run Percona databases on Kubernetes, the easy way. Chances are that if you are using the latest Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version, you have seen the availability of the new Percona Database as a Service (DBaaS). If not, go and...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 1, 2023 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, where organizations scrutinize their public cloud...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Feb 23, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. It is a common practice that before a backup can be stored...
by Peter Sylvester | Feb 13, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Recently, I was working with my colleagues Edwin Wang and Taras Onishchuk and found an interesting edge case involving a situation where a replica running Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, external to AWS Aurora instance version 2.10.2 (5.7-compatible), broke. I recreated...
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 10, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 24, 2023 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Platform, Percona Software
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are...
by Brijesh Chauhan | Dec 28, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Recently I came across an interesting investigation about long-running transactions getting killed on an Aurora Reader instance. In this article, I will explain why it is advisable to avoid long-running transactions on Aurora readers when executing frequent DDL...
by Yves Trudeau | Dec 23, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Storage Engine
I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have appeared over the last few years. Although MyRocks is very efficient for writes, I chose a more generic workload that will provide a different MyRocks use case....
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 28, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends, Open Source
At its core, the cloud is a fantastic innovation — I do not think many of us will long for the days when it required days, weeks, or even months to provision a new server. Programmable, instantly accessible infrastructure comes with so much flexibility. It allows new...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 31, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
To follow up on my previous Kubernetes articles: Installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and Have Percona Server for MySQL running (Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL...
by David Stokes | Oct 25, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This week is KubeCon in Detroit, and in preparation for attending I have been polishing up my Kubernetes skills. This big rush to put software in containers and have Kubernetes run everything is getting a lot of push in the industry. Many software applications run...
