In this blog, we’ll look at how to achieve better-than-linear scaling. Scalability is the capability of a system, network or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. For example, we consider a system scalable if it is capable of increasing its total output under […]
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Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona […]
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Take Percona’s One-Click 2017 Top Database Concerns Poll. With 2017 coming quick around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about what next year is going to bring to the open source database community. We just finished Percona Live Europe 2017, and at the conference we looked at new technologies, new techniques, and new ideas. […]
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Please join Percona, Technical Account Manager, Michael Patrick on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 10 AM PDT (UTC-7) as he presents “Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution Today.” High availability (HA) is one of the solutions to improve performance, avoid data outages, and recover quickly from disasters. An HA environment helps guarantee that your database doesn’t […]
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This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL. It has many great features: The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and monitored Either a GUI, CLI or API can be used to check the status and perform operations Supports automatic […]
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what could happen if your MySQL database goes down? Although it’s evident such a crash will cause downtime – and surely some business impact in terms of revenue – can you do something to reduce this impact? The simple answer is “yes” by doing regular backups (of course) but are you […]
Read MoreThe conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses, feature a variety of formal tracks and sessions. Topic areas include: high availability (HA), […]
Read MoreLast week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst Jason Stamper. You can watch the recording and also download the slides (free) here. Just click the “Register” button at the end of that page. We had several excellent questions and we didn’t have time […]
Read MoreEver since MySQL replication has existed, people have dreamed of a good solution to automatically split read from write operations, sending the writes to the MySQL master and load balancing the reads over a set of MySQL slaves. While if at first it seems easy to solve, the reality is far more complex. First, the […]
Read MoreThanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” I had several questions which I covered at the end and a few that I didn’t. You can view the entire webinar and download the slides here. Q: Is the read,write speed reduced in Galera […]
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