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Escrow Buddy: An open-source tool from Netflix for remediation of missing FileVault keys in MDM

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. In its typical configuration the Crypt agent enforces FileVault upon login and escrows the resulting recovery key to a corresponding Crypt server. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

High Scalability

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy?

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Exploring Databases on Containers with Percona Server for MySQL

Percona Community

In this blog, we will explore databases on containers. We will use Docker as a container engine tool and Percona Server for MySQL as a database administration tool. Both are open source tools. MySQL is a relational database management system that stores data on disk.

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Is ANALYZE TABLE Safe on a Busy MySQL Database Server?

Percona

MySQL Server – Community Edition The problem applies to all versions of the upstream MySQL Community up to 8.0.23. Here is an example scenario you may end up here: mysql > select @@version,@@version_comment; + --+ + | @@version | @@version_comment | + --+ + | 5.7.43 | MySQL Community Server (GPL) | + --+ + 1 row in set (0.00

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Database Server Lifecycle for MySQL and MariaDB

Percona

In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where we are now and relevant historical background. The MariaDB 11 series did not yet have any long-term supported (LTS) releases, which are the releases most would consider for running mission-critical databases in production.