by Dave Avery | Aug 9, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Webinars
Join 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...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 3, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
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...
by Dave Avery | Jul 28, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
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...
by Dave Avery | Jun 13, 2016 | MongoDB
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...
by Dave Avery | May 23, 2016 | Insight for DBAs
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...
by David Busby | May 23, 2016 | Percona Events
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...
by Nik Vyzas | Mar 30, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
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....
by Dave Avery | Mar 24, 2016 | Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software
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...
by Dave Avery | Jan 27, 2016 | Percona Events
As a company that believes in and supports the open source community, embracing innovation and change is par for the course at Percona. We wouldn’t be the company we are today without fostering a culture that rewards creative thinking and rapid evolution. Part of this...
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 19, 2015 | MongoDB
We are excited this week to welcome David Murphy to Percona as our Practice Manager for MongoDB®. A veteran of ObjectRocket, Electronic Arts, and Rackspace, David is a welcome addition to our team and will provide vision, direction and best practices for all things...
by Kortney Runyan | Oct 16, 2015 | Percona Events
The MySQL 101 track was introduced at the 2015 Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California. This track was tailored specifically for software developers and other specialists with technical backgrounds wanting to acquire the basic skills needed...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 16, 2015 | Percona Events
But mostly thank you to our customers who said more about Percona than we ever could have. There are many milestones in the life of the company, and being included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant is one of very significant ones! I’m very proud we have now reached that...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 18, 2015 | MySQL
Intro The purpose of this project was to measure the potential overhead of VividCortex Agent, which is used by VividCortex.com database monitoring system. This benchmark is part of a consulting engagement with VividCortex and paid by the customer. The assumption is...
by Kortney Runyan | Sep 10, 2015 | Percona Events
The countdown for the annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo in Europe continues with today’s announcement of our keynote speakers! This three-day conference focuses on the latest trends, news and best practices in the MySQL, NoSQL and data in the...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 28, 2015 | MongoDB
If you can make it to Manhattan next Monday, please join me at the MongoDB Community Open House. The June 1 event is free and open to all. It runs from 3:30-6:30 p.m. just across the road from MongoDB World. The MongoDB Community Open House, held at the New York...
by Stephane Combaudon | May 5, 2015 | MySQL
Being schemaless is one of the key features of MongoDB. On the bright side this allows developers to easily modify the schema of their collections without waiting for the database to be ready to accept a new schema. However schemaless is not free and one of the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 1, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL
An idea for a benchmark based on the “arrival request” rate that I wrote about in a post headlined “Introducing new type of benchmark” back in 2012 was implemented in Sysbench. However, Sysbench provides only a simple workload, so to be able to...
by Tom Diederich | Apr 24, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2015 | MySQL
It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2015 | MySQL
It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability...
