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June 4, 2024
Downsampling Metrics in Percona Monitoring and Management: Saving Space and Improving Performance
Downsampling is the process by which we can selectively prune (discard, summarize, or recalculate) data from a series of samples [...]
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June 4, 2024
MongoDB Partitioning: Best Practices for Scalability and Performance
MongoDB’s flexibility and speed make it a popular database choice, but as your data grows, managing and querying massive datasets [...]
June 3, 2024
Controlling Resource Consumption on a PostgreSQL Server Using Linux cgroup2
Multi-tenancy/co-hosting is always challenging. Running multiple PG instances could help to reduce the internal contention points (scalability issues) within PostgreSQL. [...]
June 3, 2024
Keeping an Eye on the Eye: Self-Monitoring for Percona Monitoring and Management
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a powerful tool for keeping your databases healthy, but what about PMM itself? While [...]
May 30, 2024
PostgreSQL 17: Two Small Improvements That Will Have a Major Impact
PostgreSQL releases are incremental evolutions that improve the product. The beta version 17 was recently released, and there are two [...]
May 30, 2024
Announcing ARM Support in Percona Operator for MongoDB
Percona is thrilled to announce the release of ARM support in Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0. This new feature addresses [...]
May 29, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Setting Up Replication
In most database systems, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, replication of some kind is used to create a highly available [...]
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May 29, 2024
Beyond The Horizon: Mastering Percona Server for MongoDB Exposure in Kubernetes – Part Two – Istio
This is the second part of the series of blog posts unmasking the complexity of MongoDB cluster exposure in Kubernetes [...]
May 28, 2024
Valkey/Redis Sharding Using the Native Clustering Feature
In this blog post, we are going to implement the concept of sharding in a Valkey setup. This is a [...]
May 28, 2024
Beyond the Horizon: Mastering Percona Server for MongoDB Exposure in Kubernetes – Part One
Running and managing MongoDB clusters in Kubernetes is made easy with the Percona Operator for MongoDB. Some aspects are just [...]
May 24, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Migrating to Valkey
As you are probably aware, Redis decided to switch to a source-available, SSPLv1 license. This means, as of Redis 7.4, [...]
May 24, 2024
Upcoming Percona University Events – France, Germany, and India
Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, [...]
May 23, 2024
Beyond Cloud: The Impact of AI Agents on Platform Engineering
In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal [...]
May 23, 2024
How to Migrate From MariaDB to MySQL
MySQL and MariaDB are two major open source database management systems that share a common codebase and history. MariaDB started [...]
May 22, 2024
Are Your Backups Able to Pass the Unisuper Test?
You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off [...]
May 21, 2024
High Availability: Choosing the Right Option for Your Percona Monitoring and Management
Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management [...]
May 20, 2024
New Valkey Packages by Percona
Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It [...]
May 20, 2024
Can We Set up a Replicate Filter Within the Percona XtraDB Cluster?
If you were to ask me the question, “Would it be possible to set up a replicate filter within the [...]
May 16, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Not-So-Good Practices
As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things [...]