An Introduction to Database High Availability for MySQL & MariaDB
The following is an excerpt from our whitepaper “How to Design Highly Available Open Source Database Environments” which can be downloaded for free. A Couple of Words on “High Availability” These days...
View ArticlePercona’s Open Source Data Management Software Survey
Click Here to Complete our New Survey! Last year we informally surveyed the open source community and our conference attendees. The results revealed that: 48% of those in the cloud choose to...
View ArticleDBEvents: A Standardized Framework for Efficiently Ingesting Data into Uber’s...
Keeping the Uber platform reliable and real-time across our global markets is a 24/7 business. People may be going to sleep in San Francisco, but in Paris they’re getting ready for work, requesting...
View ArticleWhere you can find MySQL in April & May 2019
.As a continue of the blog post submitted on Jan 31, we would like to share with you the list of events & conferences where you can find MySQL Community team and/or MySQL experts at. Please find...
View ArticleNode.js & MySQL CRUD — Database Connection & SQL Queries
MySQL is one of the most popular databases in the world and Node.js is a complete platform for building server side applications. Node.js is commonly used with NoSQL databases but you can also use it...
View ArticleMySQL InnoDB Cluster – consistency levels
Consistency during reads have been a small concern from the adopters of MySQL InnoDB Cluster (see this post and this one). This is why MySQL supports now (since 8.0.14) a new consistency model to...
View ArticleShinguz: MariaDB and MySQL Database Consolidation
We see at various customers the request for consolidating their MariaDB and MySQL infrastructure. The advantage of such a measure is clear in the first step: Saving costs! And this requests comes...
View ArticleNew Book: DevOps for the Database
I’ve written a new 65-page ebook, titled DevOps for the Database. Drawn from what I’ve observed over the last 15 or so years in my own experience as well as that of many others, it tries to answer why...
View ArticleLondon Open Source Database Community Meetup
I strongly believe in the community. Communities are the real strength of open source. Not just the theoretical ability to study, modify and share code – but the fact that other people out there are...
View ArticleMySQL Ripple: The First Impression of a MySQL Binlog Server
Just about a month ago, Pavel Ivanov released Ripple under the Apache-2.0 license. Ripple is a MySQL binlog server: software which receives binary logs from MySQL or MariaDB servers and delivers them...
View ArticleShinguz: Linux system calls of MySQL process
We had the problem today that a MySQL Galera Cluster node with the multi-tenancy pattern caused a lot of system time (sy 75%, load average about 30 (you really must read this article by Brendan Gregg,...
View ArticlePercona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 on March 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release includes fixes to bugs...
View ArticleIt's Never Done, Thus It's Already Done
Last week I “finished” a new medium-sized book (an ebook—that is, a PDF). But even as we downloaded the final PDF from Google Docs and uploaded it to our company website, I already had a file full of...
View ArticleBuilding lifelike virtual avatars to help people connect in VR
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is using groundbreaking 3D capture technology and AI systems to create lifelike virtual avatars. The technology could one day make social connections in virtual reality as...
View ArticleSetting Up a Node Project With Typescript
Node, a run-time environment that makes it possible to write server-side JavaScript, has gained a lot of adoption since its release in 2011. Writing server-side JavaScript is incredible but can get...
View Articledbdeployer community: Part 3 - MySQL Cluster (NDB)
I remember wanting to create MySQL Cluster sandboxes several years ago. By then, however, MySQL-Sandbox technology was not flexible enough to allow an easy inclusion, and the cluster software itself...
View ArticleMySQL Connection Handling and Scaling
In this post we describe MySQL connections, user threads, and scaling. We hope that an increased understanding of how MySQL works will help application developers and system administrators to make...
View ArticleMySQL Security – MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification
MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification hides sensitive information by replacing real values with substitutes in order to protect sensitive data while they are still look real and consistent.
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 3/21: MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour
Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4)....
View ArticleHow To Test and Deploy Kubernetes Operator for MySQL(PXC) in OSX/macOS?
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to test Kubernetes locally on OSX/macOS. Testing Kubernetes without having access to a cloud operator in a local lab is not as easy as it sounds. I’d like...
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