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Benchmarking MariaDB on ARM with TPCC

Majority of the users use cases are covered with sysbench variants of workload but there are users who have use-cases that could be best represented with TPCC or for that…

Krunal Bauskar MySQL On ARM 2022-02-22

How long do you keep the metrics in PMM?

Hello everyone! We are indeed excited to announce that the new release of VictoriaMetrics has many exciting features, one of them being downsampling. Downsampling helps to reduce disk space usage…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2022-02-11

How to Summarize gdb Backtrace with pt-pmp (and Flamegraph)

This is going to be more like a note to myself and my readers than a real blog post. But still I’d like o document the trick that I am…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-02-10

How to Summarize gdb Backtrace with pt-pmp (and Flamegraph)

This is going to be more like a note to myself and my readers than a real blog post. But still I’d like o document the trick that I am…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-02-10

How to Publish a Blog Post

If you write technical content or just want to become an author, this blog is open to you! We accept any technical articles about databases and open source technologies. Also,…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2022-02-10

What is JPA?

An introduction to Jakarta Persistence API and its usage in Java applications.

Programming Brain 2022-02-07

How to Add Probe Inside a Function and Access Local Variables with bpftrace

During several my talks on bpftrace I mentioned that it is possible to add probe to “every other” line of the code, same as with perf, but had never demonstrated…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-02-04

How to Add Probe Inside a Function and Access Local Variables with bpftrace

During several my talks on bpftrace I mentioned that it is possible to add probe to “every other” line of the code, same as with perf, but had never demonstrated…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-02-04

DTrace Basics and Tracing Every MariaDB Server Function Call

In my previous post I’ve explained how to build MariaDB Server 10.8 from GitHub source on macOS. This kind of (totally unsupported by both MariaDB Corporation and Foundation) build may…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-01-30

DTrace Basics and Tracing Every MariaDB Server Function Call

In my previous post I’ve explained how to build MariaDB Server 10.8 from GitHub source on macOS. This kind of (totally unsupported by both MariaDB Corporation and Foundation) build may…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-01-30

First steps with MariaDB Server and DTrace on macOS

FOSDEM 2022 is going to happen on the next weekend and I am still missing blog posts supporting my unusual upcoming talk there, this time devoted to building and using…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-01-27

First steps with MariaDB Server and DTrace on macOS

FOSDEM 2022 is going to happen on the next weekend and I am still missing blog posts supporting my unusual upcoming talk there, this time devoted to building and using…

Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist 2022-01-27

5 Steps to Improve Performance of Default MySQL Installation

Let’s say you have a fresh MySQL installation. Are there any possible steps to improve performance right away? Yes, there are! Recently, Marcos Albe (Principal Support Engineer, Percona) did an…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2022-01-27

PMM 2.26.0 Preview Release

PMM 2.26.0 Preview Release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.26.0 is now available as a Preview Release. PMM team really appreciates your feedback! We encourage you to try this PMM Preview…

Percona Community Blog – learn about MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB 2022-01-27

iibench (aka the Index Insertion Benchmark) implemented as a sysbench workload

Our team has reimplemented iibench as a sysbench workload. You can read more about it on the project Github page.

MySQL Performance Blog MySQL Performance Blog 2022-01-19