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Upgrading Between Major MariaDB Versions
Hello world, I am still alive (even if this blog hasn’t been that much alive lately)!There have been way too long since my last blog, so I thought it’s time…
Our Offer to Online Meetups and Community Leaders
Percona’s Community team organizes our speakers at in-person events around the world, such as Percona Live, Percona University, and events sponsored by other organizations. However, like everyone else around the…
Deploying Tarantool Cartridge Applications with Zero Effort (Part 2)
We have recently talked about how to deploy a Tarantool Cartridge application. However, an application’s life doesn’t end with deployment, so today we will update our application and figure out…
Deploying Tarantool Cartridge Applications with Zero Effort (Part 1)
Tarantool is an open-source in-memory DB with a Lua application server on board. It’s best used for apps that require high performance and horizontal scaling. Out of the box we…
MySQL & Dockers…a simple set up
MySQL & Dockers… are not new concepts, people have been moving to Dockers for some time now. For someone who is just moving to this for development, it can have…
The state of Orchestrator, 2020 (spoiler: healthy)
This post serves as a pointer to my previous announcement about The state of Orchestrator, 2020. Thank you to Tom Krouper who applied his operational engineer expertise to content publishing…
The state of Orchestrator, 2020 (spoiler: healthy)
This post serves as a pointer to my previous announcement about The state of Orchestrator, 2020. Thank you to Tom Krouper who applied his operational engineer expertise to content publishing…
The state of Orchestrator, 2020 (spoiler: healthy)
Yesterday was my last day at GitHub, and this post explains what this means for orchestrator. First, a quick historical review: 2014: I began work on orchestrator at Outbrain, as…
The state of Orchestrator, 2020 (spoiler: healthy)
Yesterday was my last day at GitHub, and this post explains what this means for orchestrator. First, a quick historical review: 2014: I began work on orchestrator at Outbrain, as…
Finding MySQL Scaling Problems Using perf
The thing I wish I’d learned while still a DBA is how to use perf. Conversely after moving to a developer role, getting access to real external client workloads to…
How To Contribute to PMM Documentation
We’d love to see more contributions towards the development and improvement of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), one of Percona’s most valued projects. Like all of Percona’s software, PMM is…
Reduce MySQL CPU Usage Through Dynamic Binary Optimization
Dynimize, a dynamic binary optimizer, has been shown to improve MySQL performance in CPU intensive workloads. This post explores how Dynimize can be used to instantly reduce MySQL CPU usage…
Disk of Yesteryear Compared to Today’s SSD Drives
In my [last blog post](https://www.percona.com/ community-blog/2019/08/01/how-to-build-a-percona-server-stack-on-a-raspberry-pi-3/) I showed you how to get the entire Percona “Stack” up and running on a Raspberry Pi. This time around, I would like to show…
Queries Effect Performance
Queries effect database performance. That’s not a typo: “effect” not “affect”. The difference is not a word game but an important way to think about database performance. Many things can…
A First Look at Amazon RDS Proxy
At re:Invent in Las Vegas in December 2019, AWS announced the public preview of RDS Proxy, a fully managed database proxy that sits between your application and RDS. The new…