by Evgeniy Patlan | Apr 15, 2021 | Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Services
The End Of Support date for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming soon. According to the Ubuntu Release Life Cycle, it will be at the end of April 2021. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems. So we will...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 11, 2018 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
Ever since AMD released their EPYC CPU for servers I wanted to test it, but I did not have the opportunity until recently, when Packet.net started offering bare metal servers for a reasonable price. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL...
by Dave Avery | Jul 31, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software
Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 13, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll explain how to update the signing key for Percona Debian and Ubuntu packages. Some of the users might have already noticed the following warning on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus): W: http://repo.percona.com/apt/dists/xenial/InRelease:...
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 Tom Diederich | Mar 25, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses, Yelp has some 135 million monthly unique visitors. With those traffic volumes Yelp’s 300+ engineers are constantly working to keep things moving smoothly – and when you move that fast you learn many...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 19, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
A few days ago I wrote about MySQL performance implications of InnoDB isolation modes and I touched briefly upon the bizarre performance regression I found with InnoDB handling a large amount of versions for a single row. Today I wanted to look a bit deeper into the...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 12, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 on January 12, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.22, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 22, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted to share what kind of hardware we use to achieve this result. Let...
by Jericho Rivera | May 13, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
There are a couple of posts about setting up Percona XtraDB Cluster on Vagrant and Percona Server on MySQL Sandbox – those are two of the top tools used by the Percona Support team for testing and bug processing among other things. In this post, however, I will...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 18, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
I’d like to congratulate Canonical with the new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Release, it really looks like a great release, and I say it having my own agenda 🙂 It looks even more great because it comes with a full line of Percona Software. If you install...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 25, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
We just announced Percona Server 5.6.14 release, and I decided to make this build with the TokuDB 7.1 engine. The build is available here in the TESTING area. You are welcome to play with these binaries, but keep in mind: This is an experimental build and not supposed...
by Stewart Smith | Jul 16, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Run Ubuntu and want to try new features of Percona XtraBackup? Well, now you can. We have a Personal Package Archive (PPA) percona-daily/percona-xtrabackup. Every time code is pushed to our main source code repository, the PPA is updated. We are currently building for...
