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What is a database proxy?
An overview of database proxies, their advantages, and disadvantages.
MySQL IOPS for Reads and Surprsies
When you think about IOPS, you probably think about writes because MySQL write I/O has a long tradition of optimization, benchmarking, new algorithms, new storage engines, and so forth. There’s…
Comparing Optimizer Results
A while ago I read a paper about Optimizer Benchmarks: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? by Viktor Leis from Fakultät für Informatik of the Technische Universität München. Because we…
Comparing Optimizer Results
A while ago I read a paper about Optimizer Benchmarks: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? by Viktor Leis from Fakultät für Informatik of the Technische Universität München. Because we…
Migration of your data from one database to another
Before you consider migrating your data from MySQL to another database you have to know which objects have to be migrated. With this query you will find the objects to…
Migration of your data from one database to another
Before you consider migrating your data from MySQL to another database you have to know which objects have to be migrated. With this query you will find the objects to…
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.32 preview release
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.32 preview release Hello folks! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.32 is now available as a preview release. We encourage you to try this PMM preview…
AWS Summit Mexico City: Back to In-Person Events
In March 2020, I presented my latest talk at an in-person event. This event was organized by a local university, Then when events started to happen online, during the pandemic,…
MySQL: Tracing a single query with PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA
My task is to collect performance data about a single query, using PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA (P_S for short) in MySQL, to ship it elsewhere for integration with other data. In a grander…
Is MySQL in the Cloud the End of the DBA?
No, I don’t think so. But it is does change our profession and have important implications for software engineers using (not managing) MySQL.
What is Open Source and why should you care
The term Open Source Software reminds me of Abraham Lincoln’s widely accepted definition of Democracy. Lincoln said, “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the…
Linux Container with Incus for focmm unit testing
Currently we are in the testing phase of the next release of our Ops Center (focmm). This testing is quite complex because it includes testing the interaction of various different…
Linux Container with Incus for focmm unit testing
Currently we are in the testing phase of the next release of our Ops Center (focmm). This testing is quite complex because it includes testing the interaction of various different…
Learning Kubernetes Operators with Percona Operator for MongoDB
One of the topics that have resonated a lot for me since the first KubeCon I attended in 2018 is Kubernetes Operators. The concept of Operators was introduced much earlier…
The mysterious “sk_run_filter”
TL;DR Details: sk_run_filter is part of the Linux secure computing (seccomp), it filters system calls and their parameters seccomp is called for each system call made by all programs inside…