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Webinar February 24: What’s Old Is New, What’s Coming Is Here – Percona...
Join Brian Walters and Brandon Fleisher for an interactive discussion around new service and software offerings coming from Percona. Oracle has decided that MySQL 5.6 will reach its end of life in...
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Installing Percona Monitoring and Management v2 on Linode
About two years ago I wrote about installing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on Linode using StackScripts. This is a great way to automate the process, and now you can do even better by...
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DBaaS on Kubernetes: Under the Hood
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users in a few seconds, which can be easily scaled and usually comes...
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MongoDB Sharding & Replication 101 – The Community’s Questions Answered!
A few weeks ago I sat down and talked about tuning MongoDB memory settings with Mike Grayson, one of our MongoDB Database Engineers here at Percona. If you have not seen the video I would recommend it....
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Monitoring a TP-Link Switch with Percona Monitoring and Management
I have a local Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance at home, which I use to look after my local databases. With the release of PMM 2.14 and its support for monitoring of external...
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Various Types of InnoDB Transaction Isolation Levels Explained Using Terminal
The goal of this blog post is to explain the various types of transaction isolation levels available in MySQL. After reading the blog, you will be able to explain dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and...
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Request for Comments: Global Processlist in Percona Monitoring and Management
One piece of feedback I often hear from users of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is that while the Query Analytics feature is great and provides a lot of insights into queries the server...
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Tame Kubernetes Costs with Percona Monitoring and Management and Prometheus...
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is...
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Top 5 Features Developers Love About MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the most admired and effortless NoSQL databases to set up. Developers want to spend time building the features for their application, and with MongoDB, developers can build the...
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Improvements to Percona Server for MongoDB, Final Release of Percona Server...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights...
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Bare Systemd Method to Create an XFS Mount
For MongoDB data directories only XFS is recommended. The ext4 filesystem isn’t so bad but when there are a very, very high number of random accesses (which WiredTiger can reach) it can hit a...
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MySQL 5.6 and Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 are End of Life
MySQL 5.6.51 is the last release of the MySQL 5.6 series. Oracle will no longer provide updates or security fixes for this version. Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, the Percona Server...
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The Most Important Skills for an SRE, DBRE, or DBA
I have talked extensively about the DBA’s evolving role and how many DBA’s and operations professionals are now becoming SRE’s (site reliability engineers) or DBRE’s (database reliability engineers)....
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Hoss Talks Foss: The Podcast is Now Available
Great news! Percona’s Community-focused podcast, hosted by none other than the HOSS (Head of Open Source Software) himself (yeah, that is me), is now available on almost all podcast platforms. What?...
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Point-In-Time Recovery in Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster –...
Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) for MySQL databases is an important feature that is essential and covers common use cases, like a recovery to the latest possible transaction or roll-back the database to...
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Percona Monthly Bug Report: February 2021
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in...
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MySQL Monitoring and Reporting Using the MySQL Shell
MySQL Shell is the advanced MySQL client, which has many excellent features. In this blog, I am going to explain the MySQL shell commands “\show” and “\watch”. Both commands are very useful to monitor...
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Webinar March 18: Moving Your Database to the Cloud – Top 3 Things to Consider
Join Rick Vasquez, Percona Technical Expert, as he discusses the pros and cons of moving your database to the cloud. Flexibility, performance, and cost management are three things that make cloud...
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Connection Queuing in pgBouncer: Is it a Magical Remedy?
Yes, this post is about connection queueing, not just pooling. Because “connection pooling” – pre-created connections as a pool – is a much-celebrated feature. Almost every discussion on connection...
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Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.4, Bug Fix in Percona Server for...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights...
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