by Rachel Pescador | Mar 24, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Services
Over the past ten years, those in charge of running enterprise databases saw their focus shift from simply ensuring access and availability to overseeing architecture, design, and scalability. Site reliability engineers (SREs) and/or DBAs suddenly found themselves...
by Borys Belinsky | Mar 19, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is happy to announce the experimental release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This is a major step for tuning Percona XtraDB Cluster to be more cloud- and user-friendly. This is the second experimental release that combines the updated and feature-rich Galera...
by Rachel Pescador | Feb 26, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
While Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure continue to lead the pack, Google Cloud Platform is firmly positioned as a viable alternative for large and small businesses. Google Cloud is working hard to market its unique benefits, hoping to capture a share of...
by Rachel Pescador | Feb 25, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
The race to the cloud continues gaining pace, and many businesses have already enthusiastically embraced the new opportunities and efficiencies the cloud can bring. But, for those companies with more traditional technology structures and a lack of cloud knowledge...
by Roma Novikov | Feb 11, 2020 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
We recently released Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version 2.2 and as part of this release, we made it available on the AWS Marketplace. In this blog post, I’ll explain how to find PMM in the AWS marketplace and how to install it. It is important to...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 7, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
As our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster gains in popularity, I am getting questions about its performance and how to measure it properly. Sysbench is the most popular tool for database performance evaluation, so let’s review how we can use it...
by Stephen Thorn | Jan 20, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
Our Solutions Engineers spend a significant amount of time talking to customers who are deployed in a DBaaS environment, or who are considering moving to DBaaS. A common theme of these discussions is what a “fully-managed database service” actually means in real...
by Alkin Tezuysal | Jan 15, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we will continue to explore Vitess and test an example database provided in its repository. This is Part III of the previously discussed installation of Vitess on minikube environment, so please make sure to follow those steps to bring the cluster...
by Alkin Tezuysal | Jan 14, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’d like to share some experiences in setting up a Vitess environment for local tests and development on OSX/macOS. As previously, I have presented How To Test and Deploy Kubernetes Operator for MySQL(PXC) in OSX/macOS, this time I will be showing...
by Alok Pathak | Jan 14, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The promise of DBaaS like RDS is to reduce operational overhead (among other things) and one of the stellar cases is upgrades (major and minor). The suggested procedure involves just a couple of steps. For example, using AWS Console, you can enable “Auto minor...
by Alkin Tezuysal | Jan 13, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post series, we will discuss an overview of Vitess technology. Vitess is a database clustering solution for horizontal scaling of data sets currently suitable to 250Gb – 300Gb in sizes*. It’s a proven technology used by several web-scale companies...
by Terri Schlosser | Jan 3, 2020 | Cloud, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.2 (PMM) was released on December 24th with new features and updates designed to help you more easily manage and monitor your open source databases across your multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Let’s take a look at a few of...
by Mike Benshoof | Dec 23, 2019 | Cloud, MySQL
In an earlier post, I discussed the Shared Responsibility Model in the cloud and how it relates to databases. With either IaaS or DBaaS deployments, much of the operational and security burden is shifted away from the DBA to the cloud provider. I also noted that...
by Brian Sumpter | Dec 19, 2019 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
As the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL has been around the block more than a few times. Traditionally installed in on-premise data centers, recent years have shown a major trend for MySQL in the cloud, and near the top of this list is Amazon RDS....
by Mike Benshoof | Dec 18, 2019 | Cloud, Database Trends, MySQL
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As great as these features are, security also remains a business-critical concern. In an on-premise environment, every aspect of security is...
by Matt Yonkovit | Dec 17, 2019 | Cloud, Database Trends
The year is almost over and it’s time to recap the biggest stories in our industry over the past twelve months and how they might impact us in the coming year. The Cloud Wars Begin When we look back at 2019, we can summarize that it was the year the “Cloud Wars”...
by Mykola Marzhan | Nov 26, 2019 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
Making backups over the network can be done in two ways: either save on disk and transfer or just transfer without saving. Both ways have their strong and weak points. The second way, particularly, is highly dependent on the upload speed, which would either reduce or...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 4, 2019 | Cloud, MySQL
Recently I was doing some small testing by using EC2 instances on AWS and I noticed the execution time and performance highly depend on which time of the day I am running my scripts. I was using t3.xlarge instance type as I didn’t need many CPUs and memory for...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 21, 2019 | Cloud, Percona Software
While testing our PMM2 Beta and other Dockerized applications, you may want to clean up your docker install and start from scratch. If you’re not very familiar with Docker it may not be that trivial. This post focuses on cleaning up everything in docker so you can...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 2, 2018 | Cloud
Recently, I’ve been working with a customer to evaluate the different cloud solutions for MySQL. In this post I am going to focus on maintenance windows and requirements, and what the different cloud platforms offer. Why is this important at all? Maintenance...
