Percona is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. Find out more! At Percona, we recognize you need much more than just a database server to successfully run a database-powered infrastructure. You also need strong tools that deploy, manage and monitor the software. Percona’s Platform Engineering group is responsible just for that. They build next-generation open […]
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Thank you for attending my 22nd July 2016 webinar titled “Top Most Overlooked MySQL Performance Optimizations“. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. For hardware, which disk raid level do you suggest? Is raid5 suggested performance-wise and data-integrity-wise? RAID 5 comes with high overhead, as each write […]
Read MoreJoin Sveta Smirnova Thursday, August 11 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on InnoDB Troubleshooting. InnoDB is one of the most popular database engines. This general-purpose storage engine is widely used, has been MySQL’s default engine since version 5.6, and holds MySQL system tables since 5.7. It is hard to find a MySQL […]
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In this post, I’ll review Docker multi-host network performance. In a past post, I tested Docker network. The MySQL Server team provided their own results, which are in line with my observations. For this set of tests, I wanted to focus more on Docker networking using multiple hosts. Mostly because when we set up a high availability […]
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Join Brent Compton, Kyle Bader and Yves Trudeau on August 2, 2016 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a MySQL and Ceph webinar. Many operators select OpenStack as their control plane of choice for providing both internal and external IT services. The OpenStack user survey repeatedly shows Ceph as the dominant backend for providing persistent storage volumes […]
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Please join Jon Tobin, Director of Solutions Engineering at Percona on Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:00am PDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on “MongoDB® Schema Design.” Jon will discuss the most common misconception when evaluating the use of MongoDB: that it is “schemaless.” THIS IS NOT TRUE. MongoDB has a document structure, and thus, a schema. […]
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Wondering what high availability (HA) solutions are most popular? Take our high availability poll below! HA is always a hot topic. The reality is that if your data is not available, your customers cannot do business with you. In fact, estimates show the average cost of downtime is about $5K per minute. With an average […]
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As of May 31st, 2016, we will be disabling TLSv1.0 support on www.percona.com, repo.percona.com, etc. This is ahead of the PCI changes that will affect the June 30th 2016 deprecation the TLSv1.0 protocol. (PDF) What does this mean for you the user? Based on analysis of our IDS logs, this will affect around 6.32% of requests. […]
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In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the basics regarding Docker MySQL replication. Docker has gained widespread popularity in recent years as a lightweight alternative to virtualization. It is ideal for building virtual development and testing environments. The solution is flexible and seamlessly integrates with popular CI tools. This post walks through the setup of MySQL […]
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Admit it, you’ve always wanted to fight danger, win battles and save the day! Who doesn’t? Do you want to be a superhero? Percona can show you how! We don’t have any radioactive spiders or billionaire gadgets, but we do have our own team of superheroes dedicated to protecting your database performance: The Database Performance Team! […]
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